History
The first part of the name Combe Florey comes from cwm meaning valley, and the second part from Hugh de Fleuri who was lord of the manor around 1166.
At the time of the Domesday Book in 1086 the village was part of the Bishop of Winchesters estate of Taunton Deane. The parish of Combe Florey was part of the Taunton Deane Hundred.
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