Place:Combe St. Nicholas, Somerset, England

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Combe St. Nicholas is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, situated 2 miles (3.2 km) north west of Chard and 10 miles (16 km) from Taunton in the South Somerset District. The parish, which includes the hamlets of Wadeford and Scrapton, had a population of 1,336 in 2001 (latest available census).

For more information, see the EN Wikipedia article Combe St Nicholas.

Research Tips

• The Combe St Nicholas GENUKI page gives dates of availability of parish records (births, marriages and deaths) and Poor Law Unions.

• The Somerset Heritage Centre (incorporating what was formerly the Somerset Record Office and the Somerset Local Studies Library) can be found at its new location at Langford Mead in Taunton. It has an online search facility leading to pages of interest, including maps from the First and Second Ordnance Survey] (select Maps and Postcards from the list at the left, then enter the parish in the search box).
  The Heritage Centre has an email address: archives@somerset.gov.uk.

• Old Maps Online has a further selection of local maps. Some of these do not expand sufficiently to identify rural places.

• A Vision of Britain has a wide selection of articles of local interest.

• A History of Britain Online is a compilation of gazetteers which may provide more information about very small places which are missing from Wikipedia. In the case of Somerset it refers to A History of the County of Somerset by R. W. Dunning (editor), published as part of the Victoria County History series in 2006.

• A collection of West Somerset Parish Register Transcriptions are online courtesy of Martin Southwood

source: Family History Library Catalog