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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 MARTIN":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  BATH and WELLS	Somerset	Combe-Down, Monkton-Coombe, Queen-Charlton, and Woolley. The deanery of Chew, in its Chew-Magna district, contains the rectories of Butcombe, Chelwood, Chew-Stoke, Clutton, Compton-Martin	Imperial
  CHICHESTER	Sussex	CHICHESTER , a city, a sub-district, a district, a rape, and a diocese in Sussex. The city stands at the	Imperial
  Combe Martin	Devon	Combe Martin , 5 miles E. of Ilfracombe, N. Devon; P.O. See COMBMARTIN.	Bartholomew
  COMBE-MARTIN, or Combmartin	Devon	COMBE-MARTIN , or Combmartin, a small town, a parish, and a sub-district in Barnstaple district, Devon. The town sits	Imperial
  Combmartin	Devon	Ilfracombe, 3815 ac., pop. 1318; P.O., called Combe Martin . The lead and silver mines, famous in the reign of the Plantagenets, are still partially worked.	Bartholomew
  CORK	Cork	CORK , a sea-port, city, and a county of itself, and the head of a diocese, locally in the county	Lewis:Ireland
  DURHAM	County Durham	DURHAM , a city and a district in the county of Durham, and a diocese in the NE of England. The	Imperial
  EXETER	Cornwall Devon	Combe-Rawleigh, and Hemyock; the vicarages of Awliscombe, Luppit, Up-Ottery, and Yarcombe; and the p. curacies of Dunkeswell, Dunkeswell-Abbey, Culm-Davey, and Sheldon. The deanery of Dunsford contains the rectories of Ashton, Bridford, Chagford, Cheriton-Bishop, Christow, Doddiscombsleigh, Drewsteignton, Dunsford, Gidleigh, Hittisleigh, Tedburn-St. Mary, Throwleigh, and Whitstone; and the vicarages of Holcombe-Burnell, Spreyton, and South Tawton. The deanery of Honiton contains the rectories of Combpyne, Cotleigh, Farway, Gititsham, Honiton, North Leigh, South Leigh, Musbury, Offwell, Roosdown, Up-Lyme, and Widworthy; the vicarages of Axminster, Axmouth, Colyton, Shute, Membury, Seaton, and Stockland; and the p. curacies	Imperial
  Glasgow	Lanarkshire Renfrewshire	Glasgow, the commercial and manufacturing capital of Scotland, and, in point of wealth, population, and importance, the second city of	Groome
  GLOUCESTER and BRISTOL	Gloucestershire Somerset Wiltshire	Martin, Hatherop, Meysey - Hampton, and Quenington; the vicarages of Bibury, Coln-St. Aldwyn, Down-Amney, Fairford, Kempsford, Lechlade, and Southrop; and the p. curacies of Aldsworth, Winson, Eastleach-Turville, and Marston-Meysey. The deanery of Hawkesbury comprises the rectories of Alderley, Cold Ashton, Boxwell-with-Leighterton, Charfield, Cromhall, Doynton, Didmarton-with-Oldbury, Doddington, Dyrham-with-Hinton, Frampton-Cotterell, Horton, Iron-Acton, Siston, Little Sodbury, Tormarton, Tortworth, Weston-Birt, Wickwar, and Yate; the vicarages of Great Badminton, Bitton, Hawkesbury, Marshfield, Puckle-church, Old Sodbury, Tytherington, and Wapley-with-Codrington; and the p. curacies of Coal-Pit-Heath, Hanham-Abbots-with-Christchurch	Imperial
  HOLSTONE-BARR.OW	Devon	mountain on the N coast of Devon; 3 miles E of Combe-Martin. It has an altitude of 1, 187 feet.	Imperial
  Iona	Argyll	comb. It was asserted by the older writers that the island at one time contain ed 360 crosses, and that the synod of Argyll ordered these to be destroyed shortly after the Reformation, but this is plainly a very strong case of travellers'stories. There are now two entire crosses, traces of other nine or ten in the shape of fragments, and of three or four from the names of places. The entire ones are St Martin	Groome
  KENT	Kent	KENT , a maritime county; bounded on the N, by the Thames and the German ocean; on the E, by the	Imperial
  KENTISBURY	Devon	Combe-Martin, and 9 NE of Barnstaple r. station. It contains the hamlets of Patchole, Ford, and West Kentisbury or Kentisburytown	Imperial
  KILKENNY	Kilkenny	KILKENNY , a city and, including Irishtown, a county of itself, and the seat of the diocese of Ossory, locally in	Lewis:Ireland
  LIMERICK	Limerick	LIMERICK , a city and county of itself, situated on the river Shannon, locally in the county of Limerick (of which	Lewis:Ireland
  LINCOLN	Lincolnshire Nottinghamshire	LINCOLN , a city and a district in Lincolnshire, and a diocese partly also in Notts. The city stands on Ermine	Imperial
  OXFORD	Berkshire Buckinghamshire Oxfordshire Wiltshire	Combe. The Warneford lunatic asylum stands on Headington hill; and the Oxfordshire and Berks pauperlunatic asylum is at Littlemore. Boulter's alms-houses were founded in 1736, by bequest of Edmund Boulter; are for 7 poor men; and have an endowed income of £333. Stone's hospital was founded in 1699, by bequest of the Rev. W. Stone; is for 8 poor women; and has an endowed income of £220. Tawney's alms-houseswere founded in 1800, by E. Tawney; are for 3 poor men and 3 poor women; and have an endowed income of £146. Parson	Imperial
  YORK	Yorkshire	YORK , a city, a district, an ainsty, and a diocese, in Yorkshire. The city stands on Watling-street, on the	Imperial

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