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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'.

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

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

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

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. The far one remains intact and is dated 1922.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Looking towards Beachy Head, this view shows the 'combe' of Holy Well with its paths. It is here that the sea can be reached, albeit by a steep path, in a break in the cliffs enlarged by quarrying.