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combeSteep-sided valley found on the scarp slope of a chalk escarpment. The inclusion of ‘combe’ in a placename usually indicates that the underlying rock is chalk. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Nay, more, I consider it as the only form of building in which happiness is attainable, and were I rich enough I would instantly pull Combe down, and build it up again in the exact plan of this cottage. Going to the south-westward towards the rising country that is now called Combe Wood, I observed far off, in the direction of nineteenth-century Banstead, a vast green structure, different in character from any I had hitherto seen. From here they ascended the great ridge of the hills up the valley Combe, the projecting shoulder of the Downs covering their march from the town. |
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