Creacombe

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Creacombe is a hamlet in Devon

Parish/Community: Rackenford
District/Borough: North Devon
County: Devon
Region: South West

Category: Populated Place
Type: Hamlet

Latitude/Longitude: 50°57'43"N 3°40'56"W
Eastings/Northings: 281959, 119417
OS Grid: SS819194
Mapcode Local: GBR L7.MQZ6
Mapcode Global: FRA 365K.P87

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Creacombe within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Creacombe in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Creacombe, par., N. Devon, on river Sturcombe, 7½ miles SE. of South Molton, 1050 ac., pop. 63.

Creacombe in the Domesday Book

A village in Witheridge hundred, in the county of Devon.

- Lords of the Manor in 1066: Leofgar; Siward of Hemington
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Baldwin the sheriff
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Ansger (subinfeudated)
- Taxable Value: ¹⁄₄ geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: 12 shillings in 1070; 15 shillings in 1086
- Households: 4 villagers; 1 smallholder; 3 slaves
- Plough Teams: 1 lord's plough; 1 men's plough (3 ¹⁄₂ plough lands)
- Meadow: 12 acres
- Woodland: 3 acres
- Pasture: 14 acres
- Animals in 1086: 13 cattle

British Place Names

Creacombe, Devon

Creacombe is a hamlet in Devon

Creacombe in historic gazetteers

Creacombe in the Domesday Book