Doccombe is a small hamlet in the Dartmoor National Park. It is also an historical village.
Following the death of Thomas A. Beckett in 1170, the murderers were banished to the Holy Wars in the Middle East. One of their number William de Tracey, a Knight whose family were wealthy landowners in Devon became very ill on an island in the Mediterranean thought to have been either Corsica or Cyprus.

Fearing death and eternal damnation for the heinous crime he had participated in, donated the Hamlet of Doccombe in Devon to Canterbury, the centre of the Roman Catholic Church in England, "for the clothing of one White Monk to pray for his soul until eternity".

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