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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Coombes like this:
COOMBS, or Coombe, a parish in Steyning district, Sussex; on the river Adur, and on the Steyning and Henfield railway, 1½ mile S by E of Bramber station, and 2¼ SSE of Steyning. Post town, Steynmg, under Hurstper point. Acres, 1, 292. Real property, £930. Pop., 77. Houses, 11. The property is all in one estate. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester. Value, £201. Patron, Lord Leconfield. The church is early English and tolerable.
Coombes is now part of ADUR District. Click here for graphs and data of how ADUR has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Coombes itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Coombes, in Adur and Sussex | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/8317
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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