Holcombe Burnell, Devon, England Genealogy: Difference between revisions

HOLCOMBE-BURNELL (St. John the Baptist), a '''parish''', in the union of St. Thomas, hundred of Wonford, Wonford and S. divisions of Devon, 4½ miles (W. by S.) from Exeter. The church has an ornamented doorway in the Norman style. Near the old manorial mansion, built in the reign of Henry VIII., and since converted into a farmhouse, was anciently a chapel.<ref>Lewis, Samuel A., ''[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51037&strquery=HOLCOMBE-BURNELL A Topographical Dictionary of England]'' (1848), pp. 527-530.</ref>