COMBE-ST. NICHOLAS, a village, a parish, and a sub-district in Chard district, Somerset. The village stands near the Chard canal and the Chard and Taunton railway, 2 miles NW by N of Chard; and has a post office under Chard, and a fair on the Wednesday after 10 Dec. The parish is divided into the tything of Betham, Clayhanger, Ham, and Wadford; and includes the hamlets of Sticklepath and Walton. Acres, 4, 203. Real property, £7, 884. Pop., 1, 228. Houses, 268. The property is much subdivided. There was anciently a nunnery at Walton. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £440.* Patron, the Bishop of Bath and Wells. The church is later Eng lish, cruciform, and good; and has an embattled tower. Charities, £160. -The sub-district contains six parishes. Acres, 16, 743. Pop., 3, 398. Houses, 690.

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