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The fells in the background are High Crag and High Stile, with Comb Crags and Burtness Combe in between.

The fells in the background are High Crag and High Stile, with Comb Crags and Burtness Combe in between.

Back across the river, via the Batheaston toll bridge, follow the Avon south before turning right to Monkton Combe, a delightful village nestling in the valley of the Midford Brook.

Combe Martin's climate has been praised: 'A stay here is wonderfully beneficial to those suffering from threatened lung trouble'.

Castle Combe was once a centre for cloth weaving but now seems to trade on its picturesque qualities.

Widecombe, probably Dartmoor's most well-known village, stands in the broad valley ('Wide Combe') of the East Webburn river.

The combe, an area of flat ground and in fact an old chalk quarry, was laid out with garden beds, walks and loggias.

Branscombe runs down a beautiful little valley ('Brannoc's combe') to a break in the cliffs with a tiny beach.

Yawl is a dramatic deep combe which gives a real taste of East Devon's pastoral land.

A place familiar to all train travellers through Devon, Dawlish nestles across the sides of a broad combe, with the railway line protecting the town from the sea.

Once the haunt of smugglers, now frequented by yachtsmen, Combe Cellars sits on the banks of the Teign.

Silecroft, near Millom, stands at the southernmost extremity of the Lake District National Park, at the foot of Black Combe (1,970 ft).

Combe Martin's climate has been praised: 'A stay here is wonderfully beneficial to those suffering from threatened lung trouble'.

The ancient village of Castle Combe is now famous for its motor racing circuit, but it still retains its old-world charm.

The village is certainly one of Devon's prettiest, not least for its setting, strung in a series of hamlets around the junction of several pastoral and wooded combes.

The Cotswold stone tower of St Andrews Church stands fittingly adjacent to the Market Cross, the scene of Castle Combe's once famous sheep market.

Castle Combe was once a centre for cloth weaving but now seems to trade on its picturesque qualities.

This thatched cottage, now slated, was a 17th-century farmhouse, then two cottages; now it is the lodge for Combe Head House.

When the New Town was being built many new streets were named after people linked with the town: King Harry Street, Waterhouse Street and Combe Street, are adjacent to Marlowes where the first

The Dyke Hills are the setting for the Devil's Dyke, a spectacular downland combe or cleft which, according to legend, was dug by the Devil in an attempt to flood the area with sea water

Combeinteignhead takes its name from the valley which runs down to the Teign estuary at Combe Cellars.

Harcombe runs roughly parallel to Yawl; it is another long combe running north from the main valley of the River Lim.

Combe Martin (or Combmartin as it was known until the 1890s) takes its name from Robert FitzMartin, the first lord of the manor, whose family retained the title until the 14th century.

Combe Martin (or Combmartin as it was known until the 1890s) takes its name from Robert FitzMartin, the first lord of the manor, whose family retained the title until the 14th century.