Odcombe is a village and civil parish in south Somerset, England, 3 miles (4.8 km) west of the town of Yeovil, with a population of 759 in 2011.
Along with the Odcombe Barony, Ansgar de Brito acquired multiple additional holdings within Somersetshire, at which point the Count of Mortain became his overlord.
[4] A headstone in yellow Jaisalmer stone lies embedded in the front lawn of the church to mark a memorial service to poet Dom Moraes (1938–2004).
[5] Notable residents of the village include Humphrey Hody, a late 17th-century scholar and theologian; George Strong, a 19th-century soldier awarded the Victoria Cross in the Crimean War; the writer Hilda Mary Hooke; and Thomas Coryat, a 17th-century traveller and writer, author of Coryat's Crudities.
[6] Coryat described his "...love of Odcombe in Somersetshire, which is so deare unto me that I preferre the very smoke thereof before the fire of all other places under the Sunne.