Combe
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English place names
- Combe, BerkshireCombe, BerkshireCombe is a village and civil parish in the English county of Berkshire. It is situated in the district of West Berkshire,on the top of the downs near Walbury Hill and Combe Gibbet, overlooking the village of Inkpen and the valley of the River Kennet...
- Combe, Buckfastleigh, DevonCombe, Buckfastleigh, DevonCombe is a small village in the county of Devon, England. It lies on the River Mardle about 2 miles north west of the town of Buckfastleigh....
- Combe, Yealmpton, DevonCombe, Yealmpton, DevonCombe is a village near Yealmpton in the English county of Devon....
- Combe, HerefordshireCombe, HerefordshireCombe is a small village in the English county of Herefordshire. The village lies east of Presteigne near the confluence of the Hindwell Brook and the River Lugg.-References:...
- Combe, OxfordshireCombe, OxfordshireCombe is a village and civil parish about northeast of Witney in Oxfordshire. The ecclesiastical parish is called Combe Longa .-History:...
- Combe, Somerset
Places in England with combe as one word in part of their name
Cumbria- Black CombeBlack CombeBlack Combe is a fell in the south-west corner of the Lake District National Park, just four miles from the Irish Sea. It lies near the west coast of Cumbria in the borough of Copeland and more specifically, an area known as South Copeland...
Devon
- Combe FishacreCombe FishacreCombe Fishacre is a village in the English county of Devon....
- Combe MartinCombe MartinCombe Martin is a village and civil parish on the North Devon coast about east of Ilfracombe. It is a small seaside resort with a sheltered cove on the edge of the Exmoor National Park...
- Combe PaffordCombe PaffordCombe Pafford is a village in Torbay in the English county of Devon....
- Combe RaleighCombe RaleighCombe Raleigh is a village in the county of Devon, England. It is about 1.5 miles north of the town of Honiton. The word 'Combe' is of Celtic origin meaning 'valley' whilst the name 'Raleigh' comes from the Raleigh family's ownership of the village in the thirteenth century.The 15th century parish...
- Slewton CombeSlewton CombeSlewton Combe, also known as the Slewton Valley is an outlying farmstead approximately one mile to the East of the East Devon village of Whimple. Although outside of the officially recognised AONB boundaries it is widely regarded as a particularly beautiful area in the locality...
- In Torquay, Devon
- Ellacombe, DevonEllacombe, DevonEllacombe is a village in Devon, England, near Torbay.-References:Ellacombe is not a village near Torbay. It is a District of Torquay in the County Borough of Torbay....
- BabbacombeBabbacombe"Babbacombe" may also refer to John 'Babbacombe' LeeBabbacombe is a district of Torquay, Devon, England. It is notable for Babbacombe Model Village, and its clifftop green, Babbacombe Downs, from which Oddicombe Beach is accessed via Babbacombe Cliff Railway.There is a miniature village in the area....
- Watcombe
- Maidencombe
- Ellacombe, Devon
Dorset
- Combe AlmerCombe AlmerCombe Almer is a hamlet in Dorset, England, situated in the Stour valley in the parish of Sturminster Marshall....
Hereford
- Combe MoorCombe MoorCombe Moor is a linear village in the English county of Herefordshire. The village is on the B4362 between Shobdon and Presteigne near the confluence of the Hindwell Brook and the River Lugg....
Oxford
- Combe Longa, Oxfordshire
Somerset
- Combe DownCombe DownCombe Down is a village suburb of Bath, England in the Bath and North East Somerset unitary authority within the ceremonial county of Somerset. Combe Down sits on a ridge above and about 1.5 miles to the south of Bath city centre. "Combe" or "coombe" is a West Country word meaning a steep-sided...
- Combe FloreyCombe FloreyCombe Florey is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, situated north west of Taunton in the Taunton Deane district, on the West Somerset Railway. The village has a population of 252...
- Combe HayCombe HayCombe Hay is a village and civil parish in the English county of Somerset. It falls within the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The parish has a population of 149.-History:Combe Hay was known in the Domesday Book as Cumb...
- Combe St NicholasCombe St NicholasCombe St Nicholas is a village and parish in Somerset, England, situated north west of Chard and from Taunton in the South Somerset district on the edge of the Blackdown Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The parish, which includes Wadeford and Scrapton, has a population of...
- Combe Throop/Templecombe
- Monkton CombeMonkton CombeMonkton Combe is a village and civil parish in north Somerset, England, south of Bath. The parish, which includes the hamlet of Tucking Mill, has a population of 356.-History:Monkton Combe was part of the hundred of Bath Forum.According to Rev...
Surrey
- Combe CommonCombe CommonCombe Common is a village in the English county of Surrey....
People
- Andrew CombeAndrew CombeAndrew Combe , Scottish physician and phrenologist; was born in Edinburgh on the October 27, 1797, and was a younger brother of George Combe....
, Scottish physiologist - David CombeDavid CombeDavid Combe was National Secretary of the Australian Labor Party, a political consultant and lobbyist, an Australian Trade Commissioner, a Senior Vice President International of Southcorp Wines, and a consultant to the Australian Wine Industry.-Early life:Harvey David Mathew Combe was born in 1943...
, Australian political figure and wine industry executive - George CombeGeorge CombeGeorge Combe , was a Scottish lawyer and writer on phrenology and education. In later years, he devoted himself to the promotion of phrenology. His major work was The Constitution of Man .-Early life:...
, Scottish writer on phrenology and education - John Frederick Boyce CombeJohn Frederick Boyce CombeMajor-General John Frederick Boyce Combe CB DSO & Bar was a British Army officer before and during World War II. He was twice awarded the DSO for his service in the Western Desert Campaign before being captured in April 1941 and spending nearly two and a half years as a prisoner of war in Italy...
, British Army officer before and during World War II
Other
- Combe (Middle-earth), a fictional village in J. R. R. Tolkien's writings
- Combe peopleCombe peopleKombe people are an African ethnic group, members of the Bantu group, who are indigenous to Equatorial Guinea. They are native speakers of the Kombe language. From 1964 to 1969 they were located in Punta Mbonda . They later settled in Cameroon, south of Bata, and south of Rio Benito...
, an ethnic group from Equatorial Guinea - Combe language, spoken by the Combe ethnic group from Equatorial Guinea
- Combe (business), the company that gave the world Odor Eaters, Clearasil, Lanacane
- "Combe", a poem by Patti Smith from her 1978 book Babel (book)Babel (book)Babel is a book by Patti Smith, published in 1978, and contains Smith's poems along with her prose, lyrics, pictures and drawings.- Radio Ethiopia :# "Notice"# "Italy"# "The Tapper Extracts"# "Grant"# "Street of the Guides"# "Rimbaud Dead"# "Sohl"...
- Combe Magna, the fictional home of John Willoughby of Sense and SensibilitySense and SensibilitySense and Sensibility, published in 1811, is a British romance novel by Jane Austen, her first published work under the pseudonym, "A Lady." Jane Austen is considered a pioneer of the romance genre of novels, and for the realism portrayed in her novels, is one the most widely read writers in...
by Jane Austen, in Somersetshire
See also
- Coomb (disambiguation)
- Coombe (disambiguation)
- CoombesCoombesCoombes is a hamlet and civil parish in the Adur District of West Sussex, England. The village is in the Adur Valley northwest of Shoreham-by-Sea....
, West Sussex, England