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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
Authoritative historian William G.W. Watson reported "good evidence that Combe Martin was one of the maritime places in Devonshire granted by William the Conqueror to Norman Baron Martyn [Martin] de Tours
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…and deep valley 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 Con…
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. Pancras Lewes in East Sussex, and Robert fitz Martin, the son of Martin de Tours (overlord of Combe Martin after the Norman Conquest). During the medieval period in England…
Early Silver Mining in Combe Martin
Early Silver Mining in Combe Martin
…lead-mines [? 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…