Holcombe Rogus is a parish and village, 8½ miles north-east-by-east from Tiverton, and 6 west-south-west from Wellington, in the Northern division of the county, Bampton hundred, Wellington union and county court district, rural deanery of Tiverton and archdeaconry and diocese of Exeter. The church of All Saints is a plain building, having a porch, and square castellated tower containing 5 bells: the interior consists of nave, three aisles, transept, chancel, and gallery: there are several full-length figures in stone, and handsome monuments of the Bluet family. The register dates from 1540. The living is a vicarage, commuted at £300, with residence and 1½ acres of Glebe land, in the gift of the Rev. William Rayer, and held by the Rev. Wm.Wills, M.A., of Wadham college, Oxford, instituted 1824. There is a school for boys and girls and this parish has the privilege of sending one boy to Uffculme Free Grammar school. Holcombe Court, now the property of the Rev.William Rayer (who is lord of the manor and chief landowner), is a fine old mansion, with large reception hall, and has been thoroughly repaired and restored. The soil is clayey; the subsoil, gravely. The population in 1861 was 704; the acreage is 3,021.

Parish Clerk, Thomas Scott

Letters through Wellington (Somerset), which is the nearest money order office, arrive at 9.30 a.m.; dispatched at 3.p.m.;
School, Miss Sarah Coleman, mistress Carrier,--John Bailey, from his own house, to Tiverton Tuesday; to Wellington Thursday; to Taunton Saturday.

PRIVATE RESIDENTS

Baxter Mrs
Baxter Mr. William
Grigg Nathaniel Batt, esq.
Hewitt Mr
Rayer Rev. William, Holcombe Court
Talbot Mrs, Pear Close
Wills Rev.William M.A. Vicarage

COMMERCIAL

Bailey John, carrier & coal & salt merchant
Bowerman James, carpenter & builder