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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

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. It lies at the foot of Holford Glen, the scene of many walks taken by Coleridge and Wordsworth, who lived nearby.

The village, hemmed in by steep hills, nestles within a deep combe. The harbour was once connected with local mines by a railway - the tracks can be seen on the left of the photograph.

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 (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.

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

Pub, children's playground, restaurant, tea room - the Combe Cellars is all of these. It is built on a spit of land to the south side of the Teign estuary, and can be reached by only one road.

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

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.

In the centre of this picture are the buildings of Monkton Combe School. Beyond can be seen the Limpley Stoke viaduct, built for the Black Dog Turnpike Trust in 1834.

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

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

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.

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.

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 nearby vantage point at Combe hill is 638 feet high. The village church of St Mary's is an Early English building with an ancient chest and coffin.

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

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.

Castle Combe was originally the site of a Roman villa; the Normans built a castle here, and for centuries the village was a centre for cloth weaving.