HOLCOMBE, a parish, with a village, in SheptonMallet district, Somerset; on the Fosse way, 6 miles NE by N of Shepton-Mallet r. station. Post town, Stratton-on-the-Fosse, under Bath. Acres, 780. Real property, £2, 118. Pop. in 1851, 464; in 1861, 388. Houses, 82. The decrease of pop. arose from the migration of coal-miners. The property is divided among a few. The manor belongs to James E. Salmon, Esq. There is an extensive brewery. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £70.* Patron, the Rev. T. R. Jolliffe. The church is Norman, in good condition; and consists of nave and chancel, with fine Norman porch and a tower. There are chapels for Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists, and a national school.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))