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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.

With the slopes of Black Combe and the Lakeland mountains to the north, Millom occupies an enviable position, and was the home of the Lakeland poet Norman Nicholson.

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

Eype village is a quarter of a mile inland from the seashore, in a combe below the rolling Dorset downlands.

Pub, children's playground, restaurant, tea room - the Combe Cellars is all of these.

The village, hemmed in by steep hills, nestles within a deep combe.

This view into the Whitebread Hole, a combe east of Beachy Head and south of Holywell, is no longer grazed by sheep; its flat areas are manicured into football pitches.

This wheel, built in 1820, worked the old tannery, now the Combe House Hotel.

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

Looking towards Beachy Head, this view shows the 'combe' of Holy Well with its paths.

In the centre of this picture are the buildings of Monkton Combe School.

This view at Butt Brow north-west towards Combe Hill across Willingdon Bottom is part of the four thousand acres previously owned by the Duke of Devonshire that the corporation of Eastbourne have managed

The lane, still a woodland track higher up, leads from Porlock Church into Hawk Combe.

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

An empty village street in Silecroft, a small settlement at the foot of Black Combe, at 1,970ft the southernmost of the major Lake District hills and a fine viewpoint across the Irish Sea.

Combe Martin`s early prosperity came from its lead and silver mines, which were worked from prehistoric times.

Compensation of £1002 was paid, with the owners, Watney, Combe, Reid & Co Ltd, getting £902 and the occupier, Jennie Brockington, having the remaining £100.

This view, from Parson's Hill between the deep tree-filled Hawk Combe and the A39, looks across the small town below to Hurlstone Point.

A nearby vantage point at Combe hill is 638 feet high.

Nearing the coast, in a steep wooded combe 400 feet above the sea, Culbone's church is well-known to walkers along the Somerset and North Devon Coast Path , but is inaccessible by public road

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.

Compton Bishop is at the western end on the slopes of a combe.

Until 1885, when Bewdley manufactured combs, leather, malt, iron, and brass goods, the town returned one Member of Parliament.

Nestling in a combe between two rocky hills, the tower of the parish church of St Michael is clearly visible in this view of the town, taken from the Cobb, on which the Duke of Monmouth landed on 11