COMBRAWLEIGH, or Combe-Rawleigh, a parish in Honiton district, Devon; in the Otter valley, near the Yeovil and Exeter railway, 1½ mile NN W of Honiton. Post town, Honiton. Acres, 1, 747. Real property, £2, 485. Pop., 299. Houses, 59. The manor belonged formerly to the families of Bawton and Matthew; and belongs now to the family of Bernard. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £272.* Patron, E. S. Drewe, Esq. The church is of the 15th century; consists of nave, chancel, north and south aisles, with western embattled tower; and has a handsome western memorial window. The churchyard contains the tomb of John Sheldon, professor of anatomy in the royal academy.

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