Icomb

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Icomb
Icomb is located in Gloucestershire
Icomb
Icomb
Location within Gloucestershire
Population202 (2011 Census)
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townCheltenham
Postcode districtGL54
PoliceGloucestershire
FireGloucestershire
AmbulanceSouth Western
UK Parliament
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England
Gloucestershire
51°54′N 1°42′W / 51.900°N 1.700°W / 51.900; -1.700

Icomb is a village in the Gloucestershire Cotswolds, near to Stow on the Wold. The population taken at the 2011 census was 202.[1]

The village appears as Iacumbe in the Domesday Book.

Parish Church

The Church of St Mary is the parish church which has a Norman north doorway and an Early English south porch and doorway dating from around 1249. It is a grade I listed building.[2]

Icomb Place

The Grade 1 Listed building Icomb Place on edge of the village was significantly altered by Sir John Blaket in 1421, a knight who fought with Henry V at the Battle of Agincourt and died in 1431, whose tomb is in the church.[3]

51°54′N 1°42′W / 51.900°N 1.700°W / 51.900; -1.700

References

  1. ^ "Parish population 2011". Retrieved 24 March 2015.
  2. ^ "Church of St Mary". National Heritage List for England. Historic England. Retrieved 14 October 2020.
  3. ^ Foster, Graham E. (2005). The Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin Icomb (church guide).

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