HOLCOMBE-ROGUS, a village and a parish in the district of Wellington, and county of Devon. The village stands near the Western canal, the Bristol and Exeter railway, and the boundary with Somerset, 5½ miles N of Tiverton-Junction r. station, and 6 WSW of Wellington; has a post office under Wellington, Somerset; and formerly had a market and a fair. The parish comprises 3, 024 acres. Real property, £4, 344. Pop., 704. Houses, 145. The property is divided among a few. The manor belonged, for eight generations, to the Norman family of Rogo; and passed to the Bluetts. Holcombe Court, now the seat of the Rev. W. Rayer, was built in the time of James I.; and recently underwent extensive renovation. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £300.* Patron, the Rev. W. Rayer. The church is later English; consists of nave, aisles, transept, and chancel, with embattled tower; was recently restored; and contains tombs of the Bluetts. There are a Baptist chapel and a charity school.

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