Combs

Other current and historical names

Cambas

Built-Up Area: Combs
Parish/Community: Combs
District/Borough: Mid Suffolk
County: Suffolk
Region: Eastern

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 52°10'0"N 0°58'32"E
Eastings/Northings: 603609, 256238
OS Grid: TM036562
Mapcode Local: GBR SJZ.1J1
Mapcode Global: VHKDN.VSQT

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

Combs in historic gazetteers

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

Combs, par., W. Suffolk, on river Orwell, 1 mile S. of Stowmarket, 2745 ac., pop. 1174; P.O.

Combs in the Domesday Book

A village in Stowmarket hundred, in the county of Suffolk.

- Overlords in 1066: King Edward; Wulfnoth
- Lords of the Manor in 1066: Wulfnoth; Free men, fifty
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Count of Mortain
- Lords of the Manor in 1086: Hugh de Montfort (subinfeudated); Count of Mortain
- Taxable Value: 10 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £26 in 1066; £26 in 1070; £47 in 1086
- Households: 12 villagers; 15 smallholders; 2 slaves
- Plough Teams: 3 lord's ploughs; 9 men's ploughs
- Meadow: 12 acres
- Woodland: 16 pigs
- Mills: 3.5
- Animals in 1066: 24 cattle; 2 horses
- Animals in 1086: 24 cattle; 16 pigs; 60 goats; 2 horses

British Place Names

Combs, Suffolk

Combs is a village in Suffolk

Combs in historic gazetteers

Combs in the Domesday Book