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Coombe is a settlement in the
Coombe is a settlement in the English
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county of Kent
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. It lies between Ash-next-Sandwich and Woodnesborough
Woodnesborough ( ) is a village in the Dover District of Kent, England, west of Sandwich. The population taken at the 2011 census included Coombe as well as Marshborough, and totalled 1,066. There is a Grade II* listed Anglican church dedicate ...
.
According to Edward Hasted
Edward Hasted (20 December 1732 OS (31 December 1732 NS) – 14 January 1812) was an English antiquarian and pioneering historian of his ancestral home county of Kent. As such, he was the author of a major county history, ''The History and To ...
in 1800, it was a hamlet in the western section of the parish of Woodnesborough.
Coombe Lane passes through the small settlement between Ash towards New Street (heading to Woodnesborough). Coombe Lane Cottage is a Grade II Listed
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cottage on the lane.
Etymology
The village's name derives from Ancient Celtic ''cumbā'' "valley
A valley is an elongated low area often running between Hill, hills or Mountain, mountains, which will typically contain a river or stream running from one end to the other. Most valleys are formed by erosion of the land surface by rivers ...
" which was taken into Old English. The name was recorded as ''æt cumban'' in 1005, the first word æt representing ' at'.
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