Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Combmartin

Combmartin, coast par. and vil., N. Devon, near bay of same name, 5 miles E. of 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.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "coastal parish and village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Combe Martin AP/CP       Devon AncC
Place names: COMBE MARTIN     |     COMBMARTIN
Place: Combe Martin

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