ICOMB VILLAGE HISTORY GROUP

ABOUT ICOMB VILLAGE

Icomb is a quiet Cotswold village close to Stow on the Wold. It has some beautiful 17 and 18th century cottages and some striking medieval carvings in the church.  At one time Icomb was an "island" of Worcestershire in the middle of Gloucestershire.

Although there is little evidence, a rather fanciful story prevails, that Icomb was the haunt of the original "Tom, Dick, and Harry", three 18th-century brothers of the Dunsdon family who took to robbery.  From a secret hideout in a tunnel below Icomb, they robbed stagecoaches (among other dastardly deeds). They were eventually caught and hanged or imprisoned. 

There is no hint of such a black past in modern Icomb; the village is quietly spread about a small triangular green which boasts a war memorial in the style of a Celtic cross.

Why not take a "walk" around the village with StreetView circa 2011 - just click  HERE

THE ICOMB VILLAGE HISTORY GROUP

The Icomb Village History Group held its first meeting in the Village Hall on 12 March 2022.  The Group was formed after John Benington raised the idea at a Parish Meeting on 13 November 2021.

Five methods of recording the information to be collected are suggested:

i) An Icomb Village History Website with private and confidential access only to Icomb residents at this stage.

ii) A Visual Display of Icomb’s History in Icomb village hall, with a series of display panels with maps, photos, postcards of the houses in the village, showing their ownership history, and of the farms and the common land. 

iii) Oral histories from those older, long term residents who have lived and worked in the village or on the farms nearby, for many years.

iv) Confidential folders of key documents will be left on display in the Village Hall for people to read if they wish. 

v) In the longer term the Group will consider publishing two books for sale – an illustrated history of Icomb from the Iron Age to the Platinum Jubilee, and an oral history of Icomb people.

The Icomb Village History Group welcomes involvement from everyone living in the village, and also from previous Icomb residents who have moved away but are willing to share.

To view an old map of Icomb click HERE.