Icomb is a village in the

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Cotswolds, near to Stow on the Wold. The population taken at the 2011 census was 202. The village appears as ''Iacumbe'' in the

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Parish Church

The Church of St Mary is the

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which has a Norman north doorway and an Early English south porch and doorway dating from around 1249. It is a grade I

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Icomb Place

The Grade 1

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Icomb Place Icomb Place (pronounced "Ickum") is a medieval manor house on the edge of the village of Icomb, near Stow on the Wold in Gloucestershire. The word "place" in this context is thought to be a precursor of "palace". Description The house is a Gra ...

on edge of the village was significantly altered by Sir John Blaket in 1421, a

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who fought with

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at the Battle of Agincourt and died in 1431, whose

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is in the church.

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Villages in Gloucestershire Cotswold District Cotswolds {{Gloucestershire-geo-stub