Combe
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A combe is the uppermost part of a valley, or a short valley or hollow on a hill or coastline. The term may form part of a place name, such as Ilfracombe, Woolacombe, etc. The common English place name "Compton" has the same derivation.

Place names

• Combe, Berkshire, a place in Berkshire (but formerly in Hampshire), England
• Combe, Buckfastleigh, Devon, a place near Buckfastleigh, England
• Combe, Yealmpton, Devon, a place near Yealmpton, England
• Combe, Herefordshire, a place in Herefordshire, England
• Combe, Oxfordshire, England
• Combe, Somerset, England

Places with combe as one word in part of their name

• Combe Almer, Dorset, England
• Combe Common, Surrey, England
• Combe Down, Somerset, England
• Combe Fishacre, Devon, England
• Combe Florey, Somerset, England
• Combe Hay, Somerset, England
• Combe Martin, Devon, England
• Combe Moor, Herefordshire, England
• Combe Pafford, Devon, England
• Combe Raleigh, Devon, England
• Combe St. Nicholas, Somerset, England
• Combe Throop, Somerset, England
• Monkton Combe, Somerset, England

Other

• Combe (Middle-earth), a fictional village in J. R. R. Tolkien's writings
• Combe (ethnic group), an ethnic group from Equatorial Guinea
• Combe International (business), a photographic design company located in Australia
• Combe (business), the company that gave the world Odor Eaters, Clearasil, Lanacane
• "Combe", a poem by Patti Smith from her 1978 book Babel (book)
• Combe Magna, the fictional home of John Willoughby of Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen, in Somersetshire

See also

• coomb
• Coombe, disambiguation

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