Icomb
Village in Gloucestershire, England
Icomb is a village in the Gloucestershire Cotswolds, near to Stow on the Wold. The population taken at the 2011 census was 202.
The village appears as Iacumbe in the Domesday Book.
01Parish Church
The Church of St Mary is the parish church which has a Norman north doorway and an Early English south porch and doorway dating from around 1249. It is a grade I listed building.
02Icomb Place
The Grade I listed building Icomb Place on the edge of the village was significantly altered by Sir John Blaket in 1421, a knight who fought with Henry V at the Battle of Agincourt and died in 1431, whose tomb is in the church.
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