Icomb

Icomb cottages

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. The parish church of St Mary the Virgin has a Norman north doorway and an Early English south porch and doorway dating from around 1249. The tomb of Sir John Blaket, a knight who fought with Henry V at the Battle of Agincourt and died in 1431, lies within the church.[2]

Coordinates: 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. ↑ Foster, Graham E. (2005). The Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin Icomb (church guide).

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