Combe

This very isolated village is cradled amid the high downs South of the Kennet - indeed Walbury Hill which rises to 975 feet above sea level, is the highest point reached by the chalk downland in England. From here and from nearby Inkpen Hill are magnificent views across four counties.

There are plentiful remains of the work of ancient man in this area, whilst a more macabre relic of the past is the double gibbet originally erected in 1676. The gibbet stands on a New Stone Age long barrow. The 2 to 3,000 year old Iron Age fort on Walbury Hill covers 82 acres and is the largest single-ditched hillfort in the country.

Combe's small church is of the 13th century with a timber bell turret and close to it is the 18th century manor farm with a very pretty l7th century pyramid-roofed gazebo in the garden.