Combe Martin: Miners Cottages
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Combe Martin: Miners Cottages
Image: © Martin Bodman Taken: 16 Jul 2008
In Castle Street. Combe Martin is a notably linear village in the Umber valley and Castle Street, later High Street, forms the main road to Ilfracombe. The village clusters along it for a distance of two miles. Mining was one of the village’s past industries, together with hemp growing and lime burning. But the village majored on agriculture and strawberries were grown on the valley sides
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Image Location
Latitude
51.19752
Longitude
-4.022272