Combe Martin FAQ

Combe Martin FAQ
* (“valley”) and Martin de Tours, a Norman lord granted the manor after 1066. Industrial Revolution (1750–1900) Mining for silver and iron, horticulture, and shipbuilding flo…

Introduction to Combe Martin

Introduction to Combe Martin
…was one of the maritime places in Devonshire granted by William the Conqueror to Norman Baron Martyn [Martin] de Tours [de Turribus, knight]", after the Norman…

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…surrounded by very high hills". The Martin suffix "derives from [Norman lord] Le Sieur Martin de Tours, a man of much worth and assistance to William the Conqueror, Duke of…

Churches

Churches
. Pancras, likely from the Priory of St. Pancras Lewes in East Sussex, and Robert fitz Martin, the son of Martin de Tours (overlord of Combe Martin after the Norman Conquest)…

Early Silver Mining in Combe Martin

Early Silver Mining in Combe Martin
…[? r. Elizabeth I ?]" at Old Combmartin, and that "the addition of Martin [to the old British toponym Kum or Combe] to the village name, is from Martin de Tours a Norman Lor…