Icomb

Icomb is a village in the Gloucestershire Cotswolds, near to Stow on the Wold. The population taken at the 2011 census was 202.[1]

For ICOMB, see International Committee of Mennonite Brethren.
Icomb
Icomb
Location within Gloucestershire
Population202 (2011 Census)
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townCheltenham
Postcode districtGL54
PoliceGloucestershire
FireGloucestershire
AmbulanceSouth Western
UK Parliament

The village appears as Iacumbe in the Domesday Book.

Known as The Seablings, Icomb is home to two world-record breaking siblings, Cameron and Anna McLean, who in 2020 became the first brother and sister to row any ocean, and the fastest ever mixed pair to row across the Atlantic. It took the mixed pair 43 days, 15 hours and 22 minutes. They had the Icomb village sign on their boat, as the community of Icomb supported them each stroke of the way. Their boat Lily was christened at St Marys Church in the village.

Parish 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.[2]

Icomb Place

The Grade 1 Listed building Icomb Place on 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.[3]

References
  1. "Parish population 2011". Retrieved 24 March 2015.
  2. "Church of St Mary". National Heritage List for England. Historic England. Retrieved 14 October 2020.
  3. Foster, Graham E. (2005). The Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin Icomb (church guide).

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