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• If you are looking for hills, rivers, castles... or pretty much anything other than the "places" where people live and lived, you need to look in our collection of Historical Gazetteers. This contains the complete text of three gazetteers published in the late 19th century — over 90,000 entries. Although there are no descriptive gazetteer entries for placenames exactly matching your search term (other than those already linked to "places"), the following entries mention "COMBE HAY":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Aberdeen	Aberdeenshire	Aberdeen, the ' Granite City,' capital of Aberdeenshire, seat of a university, and chief town and seaport in the North of	Groome
  BATH and WELLS	Somerset	Combe Hay, Dunkerton, Elm, Farley-Hungerford, Foxcot, Hemington-with-Hardington, Laverton, Mells, Merston-Bigot, Holcombe, Nunney, Orchardleigh, Radstock, Road-with	Imperial
  COMBE-HAY, or Combhay	Somerset	COMBE-HAY , or Combhay, a parish in Bath district, Somerset; on the Fosse way and the Radford canal, 3½ miles	Imperial
  CORK	Cork	CORK (County of), a maritime county of the province of MUNSTER, and the largest in Ireland, bounded on the east	Lewis:Ireland
  Dunbar	East Lothian	Dunbar (Gael. dun-barr, ` fort on the point '), a town and a parish on the north-eastern coast of Haddingtonshire	Groome
  Edinburgh	Midlothian	Edinburgh, the metropolis of Scotland and county town of Midlothian, is situated 2 miles S of the Firth of Forth	Groome
  Glasgow	Lanarkshire Renfrewshire	Glasgow, the commercial and manufacturing capital of Scotland, and, in point of wealth, population, and importance, the second city of	Groome
  GLOUCESTERSHIRE, or Gloucester	Gloucestershire	hay per acre; maintains a good native breed of cattle, whose milk yields from 3 to 4 cwt. of cheese per year, and also excellent butter; and maintains likewise a variety of breeds, chiefly the Staffordshire and the Herefordshire, in training for the shambles, extensively fattened with oil-cake, and exported to the amount of about 10, 000 head a year. Calves and swine are numerously fed; and the swine now are chiefly the Berkshire and cross breeds. An orchard exists on almost every farm; and cider and perry are largely made. The forest section is noted principally	Imperial
  KENDAL	Westmorland	combs, and fish hooks are carried on. Brewing, tanning, iron and brass founding, and the making of agricultural implements also are carried on. A pumping apparatus at a brewery here was constructed in 1 865, with the longest suction pipe in the N of England, forcing water a distance of 720 feet and up an incline of 80 feet, and delivering a steady stream of 2 inches in diameter into a tank with capacity for 14, 000 gallons of water. The town, as a borough, both municipal and parliamentary, comprises all Kendal and Kirkland townships, and part of Nether-Graveship	Imperial
  KENT	Kent	KENT , a maritime county; bounded on the N, by the Thames and the German ocean; on the E, by the	Imperial
  KILKENNY	Kilkenny	KILKENNY (County of), an inland county, in the western part of the province of Leinster, bounded on the east by	Lewis:Ireland
  Lanarkshire	Lanarkshire	Lanarkshire, one of the south-western counties of Scotland, and the most important county of the country. It ranks only	Groome
  LIMERICK	Limerick	LIMERICK , a city and county of itself, situated on the river Shannon, locally in the county of Limerick (of which	Lewis:Ireland
  MANCHESTER	Lancashire Manchester	MANCHESTER , a city, a township, a district, a parish, and a diocese in Lancashire. The city stands at an intersection	Imperial
  MIDDLE MILL	Dorset	combe, 1 mile NNW of Lyme-Regis. Old Colway House and Hay Farm-the head-quarters of Prince Maurice when	Imperial

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