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{{Short description|Village on the outskirts of Bath, United Kingdom}}
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'''Combe Down''' is a village on the outskirts of [[Bath, Somerset|Bath]], England, in the [[Bath and North East Somerset]] [[unitary authority]] area, within the ceremonial county of [[Somerset]].

Combe Down village consists predominantly of 18th- and 19th-century [[Bath stone]]-built villas, terraces and workers' cottages; the post World War II Foxhill estate of former and present council housing; a range of [[Georgian era|Georgian]], [[Victorian era|Victorian]] and 20th-century properties along both sides of North Road and Bradford Road; and the 21st-century Mulberry Park development on the site of former [[Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom)|Ministry of Defence]] offices.

== Location ==
Combe Down sits on a ridge above [[Bath, Somerset|Bath]], approximately {{convert|1+1/2|mi|km}} to the south of the city centre. The village is adjoined to the north by large areas of natural woodland (Fairy Wood, Long Wood, Klondyke Copse and Rainbow Wood) with public footpaths offering views overlooking the city.  Parts of these woods are owned and managed by Bath & Northeast Somerset Council, but the majority are owned and managed by the [[National Trust]]; the [[Bath Skyline]] trail runs north of the woods.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019 |title=Map of Bath Skyline Walk |url=https://nt.global.ssl.fastly.net/binaries/content/assets/website/national/regions/bath-bristol/places/bath-skyline/pdf/bath-skyline-map.pdf |access-date=28 September 2023 |website=National Trust}}</ref>  To the south of the village are views of the [[Midford]] Valley.

== Toponymy ==
"[[Combe]]" or "coombe" is a word meaning a steep-sided valley derived from Old English "cumb" and possibly from the same [[Brittonic languages|Brythonic]] source as the [[Welsh language|Welsh]] [[Cirque|cwm]]. "Down" comes from the Old English "dūn" or "dūne", shortened from adūne ‘downward’, from the phrase of dūne ‘off the hill’.<ref>[[Online Etymology Dictionary]] {{cite web | title=down | url=http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=down | accessdate=26 May 2015 | url-status=live | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150527163935/http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=down | archive-date=27 May 2015 | df=dmy-all }}</ref>

== Governance ==
Formerly part of the [[parish]] of [[Monkton Combe]], Combe Down was incorporated into the [[Bath, Somerset|city of Bath]] in the 1950s.<ref name="BANES-history">{{Cite book|title=Bath City-Wide Character Appraisal|chapter=Cultural and historical development of Bath|date=31 August 2005|publisher=Bath & North East Somerset Council|url=http://www.bathnes.gov.uk/sites/default/files/sitedocuments/Planning-and-Building-Control/Planning-Policy/SPDs/bath_city-wide_character_appraisal_spd.pdf|accessdate=26 May 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150812040249/http://www.bathnes.gov.uk/sites/default/files/sitedocuments/Planning-and-Building-Control/Planning-Policy/SPDs/bath_city-wide_character_appraisal_spd.pdf|archive-date=12 August 2015}}</ref>

There have been a number of boundary changes and local government changes affecting Combe Down.

* Before 1854: part of the [[Parish|ecclesiastical parish]] of [[Monkton Combe]] in the [[diocese of Bath and Wells]] and the civil [[Hundred (county division)|hundred]] of [[Bath Forum]] in [[Somerset]]
* From 1854: part of the ecclesiastical parish of Combe Down in the diocese of Bath and Wells<ref>{{cite web | url=http://forebears.co.uk/england/somerset/combe-down | title=Forebears | work=Kelly's Directory of Somerset | accessdate=30 May 2015 | url-status=live | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150530204957/http://forebears.co.uk/england/somerset/combe-down | archive-date=30 May 2015 | df=dmy-all }}</ref> and the civil hundred of Bath Forum in Somerset
* Following the [[Public Health Act 1875]]: part of the civil hundred of Bath Forum in Somerset and [[Local board of health|Bath Rural Sanitary District]]
* Following the [[Local Government Act 1894]]: part of the [[Civil parishes in England|civil parish]] of Monkton Combe in [[Rural district|Bath Rural District Council]] in Somerset
* Following the [[Local Government Act 1933]]: part of the civil parish of Monkton Combe in [[Bathavon Rural District|Bathavon Rural District Council]] in Somerset
* Following the [[Local Government Commission for England (1958–1967)]]: from 1967 part of the [[County Borough of Bath|county borough of Bath]]
* Following the [[Local Government Act 1972]] from 1974: part of the district of Bath in the [[Avon (county)|county of Avon]]
* Following the [[Avon (county)|Avon (Structural Change) Order 1995]]: from 1996 part of the [[unitary authority]] of [[Bath and North East Somerset]].

== Amenities ==
[[File:Combe Down Post Office and Store - geograph.org.uk - 764301.jpg|thumb|Bradford Road Post Office and store]]
Combe Down has many local amenities including schools, churches, shops, local societies and pubs.  It has two [[Allotment (gardening)|allotment]] sites: 64 plots on a privately owned site at Church Road, established in 1895, and ten plots at Foxhill owned by the parish council.

The local state primary school is Combe Down CEVC ([[Church of England]] [[Voluntary controlled school|Voluntary Controlled]]) Primary School, housed partly in a [[log cabin]] imported from Finland.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.combedown.com/our-school/history | title=History of the School | publisher=Combe Down School | accessdate=26 May 2015 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150527184443/http://www.combedown.com/our-school/history | archive-date=27 May 2015 | df=dmy-all }}</ref> The nearest state secondary school (with sixth form) is [[Ralph Allen School]]. The independent [[Monkton Combe School]] is in the nearby village of [[Monkton Combe]] while its [[Preparatory school (United Kingdom)|prep school]], pre-prep and [[Preschool|nursery]] are all in Combe Down village. [[Prior Park College]], an independent Catholic secondary school, is adjacent to the village.

The centre of the village has a range of shops and small businesses. The [[post office]] closed in 2006 despite public opposition and the nearest post office branch is now inside a [[grocery store]] in a row of shops on the Bradford Road.

There is an [[Anglican Communion|Anglican]] church (Holy Trinity<ref name="Holy-Trinity">{{cite web |author=[[Historic England]] |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=442542 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150527164917/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=442542 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2015-05-27 |title=Church Of The Holy Trinity (442542) |work=[[Images of England]] }}</ref>) and a [[Nonconformist (Protestantism)|non-conformist]] chapel (Union Chapel<ref name="Union-Chapel">{{cite web |author=[[Historic England]] |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=444901 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071118213920/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=444901 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2007-11-18 |title=Union Chapel (444901) |work=[[Images of England]] }}</ref>).  A [[Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]] church (Saint Peter and Saint Paul) is on the edge of the village, adjacent to the Foxhill estate.

Combe Down has two [[rugby union]] clubs and a [[cricket]] club, a [[Preschool|children's nursery]], a [[Doctor's office|doctors' surgery]] and a [[dentist]] as well as an active Cub and Scout Group (10th Bath) with its own [[Scouting in Avon|Scouts' Hut]]. There are several societies, including an active local history group (the Combe Down Heritage Society), a branch of the [[Women's Institute]] and two art groups.
[[File:The Hadley Arms, Combe Down - geograph.org.uk - 781989.jpg|thumb|left|The Hadley Arms]]
There is a [[private hospital]], Bath Clinic (owned by [[Circle Health|Circle Health Group]]) on Claverton Down Road, based at Longwood House, the former home of the Mallet family of [[Mallett Antiques|Mallet Antiques]]. Margaret Mary Mallett (1882–1959), who lived at Longwood House, and her daughters Margaret Elizabeth Mallett (1905–1991) and Barbara Penelope Mallett Lock (1896–1978) donated {{convert|347|acres}} of land on Combe Down and [[Claverton Down]] including Rainbow Wood farm, Klondyke Copse, Fairy Wood and Bushey Norwood to the [[National Trust]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.combedown.org/on-combe-down/on-combe-down-since-1950/ | title=combedown.org | work=National Trust | accessdate=30 May 2015 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150522035919/http://www.combedown.org/on-combe-down/on-combe-down-since-1950/ | archive-date=22 May 2015 | df=dmy-all }}</ref> Opposite the hospital is a [[Star (classification)|4-star]] hotel and health club, Combe Grove Manor, with {{convert|69|acre}} of gardens and woodland.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.thehotelcollection.co.uk/hotels/combe-grove-manor-bath-hotel/ | title=The Hotel Collection | work=The Combe Grove manor Hotel, Bath | accessdate=30 May 2015 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150508070658/http://www.thehotelcollection.co.uk/hotels/combe-grove-manor-bath-hotel/ | archive-date=8 May 2015 | df=dmy-all }}</ref>

A public open space (Firs Field) incorporates the village [[war memorial]] and a play area with children's play equipment. Three parcels of land make up the Firs Field open space, two of which are under the control of the local Council. The deeds state that the Firs Field is intended for the recreation of the residents of Combe Down in perpetuity.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.bathchronicle.co.uk/Fur-flying-Firs-Field-land-swap-plan-meeting/story-11330095-detail/story.html | title=Bath Chronicle | work=Fur still flying about Firs Field 'land swap' plan meeting | accessdate=30 May 2015 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151209010406/http://www.bathchronicle.co.uk/Fur-flying-Firs-Field-land-swap-plan-meeting/story-11330095-detail/story.html | archive-date=9 December 2015 | df=dmy-all }}</ref> Firs Field was restored to meadowland status following the successful completion of the stone mine stabilisation works in 2010. A residents' group (The Friends of Firs Field) exists to ensure the appropriate representation of local residents' interests with regard to the management of the field.  In 2015 Firs Field was granted "commemorative" status and designated an official [[Fields in Trust]] "Centenary Field".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bathchronicle.co.uk/Bath-s-Firs-Field-tribute-soldiers-fought-World/story-27780100-detail/story.html |title=Bath's Firs Field tribute to soldiers who fought in First World War &#124; Bath Chronicle |accessdate=4 December 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208183650/http://www.bathchronicle.co.uk/Bath-s-Firs-Field-tribute-soldiers-fought-World/story-27780100-detail/story.html |archive-date=8 December 2015  }}</ref>

In July 2014,<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.bathlibdems.org.uk/wards/bath/combe-down/our-latest-enews | title=BathNES Liberal Democrats | work=July Combe Down News | accessdate=30 May 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140717152233/http://bathlibdems.org.uk/wards/bath/combe-down/our-latest-enews|archive-date=17 July 2014 }}</ref> the Ralph Allen CornerStone was opened. It is run by a charity, the Combe Down Stone Legacy Trust, as a sustainable building and educational centre.  The Combe Down Heritage Society has museum-standard secure archiving space in the basement where it catalogues and stores unique local heritage material, and which can be accessed by researchers.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.ralphallencornerstone.org.uk/ | title=Ralph Allen CornerStone | accessdate=30 May 2015 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208094014/http://www.ralphallencornerstone.org.uk/ | archive-date=8 December 2015 | df=dmy-all }}</ref>

There are daily bus services to the village from Bath city centre. The privately owned Bath 'circular tour' bus passes the outskirts of the village and down Ralph Allen Drive on its route to the city centre. The Bath Circular bus passes through Combe Down and caters for students travelling to the [[University of Bath]] and [[Bath Spa University]].

== History ==
It is believed{{who|date=July 2024}} that a [[Roman villa]] was situated on the southern slopes of the village somewhere below Belmont Road,<ref name="Scarth1864">{{cite book|author=Harry Mengden Scarth|title=Aquae Solis: Or Notices of Roman Bath|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_68dBLpQms4oC|year=1864|publisher=Simpkin, Marshall, & Company|pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_68dBLpQms4oC/page/n29 11]–}}</ref> the site of which was discovered in the 1850s.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/544572531 |title=Places: 544572531 (Combe Down) |author=Vanderbilt, S. |accessdate=10 November 2018 |publisher=Pleiades}}</ref> An inscription on a stone recovered from the area reads "PRO SALVTE IMP CES M AVR ANTONINI PII FELICIS INVICTI AVG NAEVIVS AVG LIB ADIVT PROC PRINCIPIA RVINA OPRESS A SOLO RESTITVIT". This can be translated as: "For the health of Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Pius Felix Invictus Augustus, Naevius the imperial freedman, helped to restore from its foundations the procurator's headquarters which had broken down in ruins." It is thought to date from AD 212–222.<ref>{{cite web | title=Roman-Britain.org | work=Romano-British Villa, Combe Down, Monkton Combe, Avon | url=http://www.roman-britain.org/places/combe_down.htm | accessdate=26 May 2015 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150220011756/http://www.roman-britain.org/places/combe_down.htm | archive-date=20 February 2015 | df=dmy-all }}</ref> Many finds from the site were taken to the Somerset County Museum at [[Taunton]].

[[John Leland (antiquary)|John Leland]], the 16th century [[antiquarian]] and traveller, noted some stone mining activity in Combe Down as he passed by.

By 1700, small open stone [[Quarry|quarries]] were operating on Combe Down. Most of the land and the quarries were purchased by Ralph Allen in 1726 but there was as yet little habitation.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.combedownheritage.org.uk/ | title=Combe Down Heritage Society | work=History | accessdate=30 May 2015 | url-status=live | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150415031646/http://www.combedownheritage.org.uk/ | archive-date=15 April 2015 | df=dmy-all }}</ref>

In 1791, John Collinson describes Combe Down as still undeveloped:
{{blockquote|On the summit of Combedown a mile northward from the church [mc], among many immense quarries of fine free stone, are large groves of firs, planted by the late Ralph Allen, esq; for the laudable purpose of ornamenting this (at that time rough and barren) hill. Among these groves is a neat range of buildings belonging to this parish. It consists of eleven houses [De Montalt Place], built of wrought stone, raised on the spot ; each of which has a small garden in front. These were originally built for the workmen employed in the quarries, but are now chiefly let to invalids from Bath who retire hither for the sake of a very fine air-, (probably rendered more salubrious by the Plantation of firs) from which many have received essential benefit. The surrounding beautiful and extensive prospects ; the wild, but pleasing irregularities of the surface and scenery, diversified with immense quarries, fine open cultivated fields, and extensive plantations of firs...".<ref name="CollinsonRack1791">{{cite book|author1=John Collinson|author2=Edmund Rack|author-link1=John Collinson (historian)|author-link2=Edmund Rack|title=The History and Antiquities of the County of Somerset: Collected from Authentick Records, and an Actual Survey Made by the Late Mr. Edmund Rack ... Adorned with a Map of the County, and Engravings of Roman Or Other Reliques, Town-seals, Baths, Churches, and Gentlemen's Seats|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EosgAQAAMAAJ&pg=GBS.PA151|year=1791|publisher=R.Cruttwell|pages=151–}}</ref>}}

From their 1924 history of Combe Down, D. Lee Pitcairn and Rev. Alfred Richardson state that:
{{blockquote|The houses in Isabella Place were built about 1800, and in 1805 when the De Montalt Mills were founded cottages were erected in Quarry Bottom and Davidge's Bottom to take the place of wooden booths which labourers and workmen had hitherto occupied for the day and in which they had sometimes slept during the week. From this time onwards the place began to develop little by little... In 1829 when the Combe Down quarries were disposed of by Mrs. Cruickshank, building further increased...".<ref name="PitcairnRichardson1924">{{cite book|author1=David Lee Pitcairn|author2=Alfred Richardson|title=An Historical Guide to Monkton Combe, Combe Down, and Claverton|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AMUXMwEACAAJ|year=1924|publisher=F.Goodall|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171209110124/https://books.google.com/books?id=AMUXMwEACAAJ|archive-date=9 December 2017}}</ref>}}

The population increased from 1,600 in 1841, to 2,372 in 1901,<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.combedown.org/on-combe-down/on-combe-down-1850-1900/ | title=combedown.org | work=Properties & Population on Combe Down 1841 to 1901 from census reports | accessdate=30 May 2015 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150522035921/http://www.combedown.org/on-combe-down/on-combe-down-1850-1900/ | archive-date=22 May 2015 | df=dmy-all }}</ref> and was 5,419 in 2011.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.bathnes.gov.uk/sites/default/files/census_2011_-_ward_profile_-_combe_down.pdf | title=Census 2011 | work=Combe Down Ward | accessdate=30 May 2015 | url-status=live | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304112219/http://www.bathnes.gov.uk/sites/default/files/census_2011_-_ward_profile_-_combe_down.pdf | archive-date=4 March 2016 | df=dmy-all }}</ref>

== Stone mines and quarries ==
[[File:Firs quarry.jpg|thumb|Inside the Combe Down quarry]]Combe Down village sits above an area of redundant 18th and 19th century [[Combe Down and Bathampton Down Mines|stone quarries]], many of which were owned and developed by [[Ralph Allen]] in the 1720s.  These quarries were fully infilled and stabilised during a central government-funded project which took place between 2005 and 2010.<ref name="Combe-Down-Stone-Mines-project">{{cite web | url=http://www.combedownstoneminesproject.co.uk/ | title=Combe Down Stone Mines project | publisher=Bath and North East Somerset Council | accessdate=26 May 2015 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141218131647/http://combedownstoneminesproject.co.uk/ | archive-date=18 December 2014 | df=dmy-all }}</ref>  Over 40 quarry sites have been identified on Combe Down.<ref>{{cite web|title=Combe Down Quarries|date=27 April 2015 |url=https://www.combedown.org/combe-down-development-timeline/combe-down-quarries/|publisher=Prior to Now|accessdate=9 December 2017}}</ref> Only one working quarry (Upper Lawn Quarry) remains on the edge of the village, located off Shaft Road. This supplies high quality [[Bath stone]] to the city and across the UK.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://projects.bre.co.uk/ConDiv/stonelist/combedown.html | title=Upper Lawn Quarry | publisher=BRE | accessdate=25 September 2011 | url-status=live | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928115940/http://projects.bre.co.uk/ConDiv/stonelist/combedown.html | archive-date=28 September 2011 | df=dmy-all }}</ref>

[[John Leland (antiquary)|John Leland]], the 16th century [[antiquarian]] and traveller, wrote in the 1500s that he approached Bath from Midford "...And about a Mile farther I can to a Village and passd over a Ston Bridge where ranne a litle broke there & they caullid Midford-Water..2 good Miles al by Mountayne and Quarre and litle wood in syte..."<ref name="Leland1768">{{cite book|author=John Leland|title=The itinerary of John Leland, publ. by T. Hearne, To which is prefix'd mr. Leland's New-year's gift|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0U0VAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA1-PA61|year=1768|pages=1–|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171209110124/https://books.google.com/books?id=0U0VAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA1-PA61|archive-date=9 December 2017}}</ref> which could be a reference to quarrying around Horsecombe Vale, between Midford and Combe Down.

The mines at Combe Down were Oolitic ([[oolite]]) [[limestone]] mines.  Stone was extracted by the "[[room and pillar]]" method, by which chambers were mined out, leaving pillars of stone to support the roof.  The Bath stone used for many of the buildings in Bath – as well as for other important buildings around the United Kingdom including [[Buckingham Palace]] – was mined from beneath and around Combe Down.  Many of these workings were once owned by the eighteenth century entrepreneur Ralph Allen (1694–1764).
<ref name="cdsm">{{cite web | url=http://combedown.aeriantest.co.uk/ | title=Combe Down Stone Mines | accessdate=30 May 2015 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151011084116/http://combedown.aeriantest.co.uk/ | archive-date=11 October 2015 | df=dmy-all }}</ref> The mines were closed in the 19th century but building work continued above ground, with some roads and houses eventually resting on only a thin crust&nbsp;– in places between only one and two metres deep – above large underground cavities with inadequate support.<ref name="cdsm" />

A five-year central government-funded project began in late 2005 to stabilise and fill the abandoned mine workings. Bath and North East Somerset Council approved the planning application in June 2003 and approximately 760 village properties were included within its boundary.<ref name=cdsm/> All mine workings inside the boundary of the planning application were stabilised using [[foam concrete]] to satisfy a 100-year design life while ensuring archaeologically important areas and bat habitats were protected. In some hydrologically sensitive areas, "stowing" – an infill with limestone aggregate&nbsp;– was undertaken. Archaeologically important areas were filled with sand and new bat caves and tunnels were created.<ref name=cdsm/>

The £154.6{{nbsp}}million grant for the works came from the Land Stabilisation Programme which was set up by the government in 1999 to deal with "abandoned non-coal mine workings which are likely to collapse and threaten life and property" and managed by [[English Partnerships]], the national regeneration agency. The total amount included £22.7m which had already been used for emergency stabilisation work before the approval of the main project.<ref name=cdsm/> Several public art projects celebrated the completion of the stabilisation works.<ref name=cdsm/>

== Foxhill Estate and Mulberry Park ==
From 1935 to 2011, the [[British Admiralty|Admiralty]] (later part of the [[Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom)|Ministry of Defence]]) owned a {{convert|46|acre}} site called Foxhill (previously a farm) on the Bradford Road. In 2013, the [[Curo]] housing organisation purchased the site where it is developing 700 new homes (151 of those to be social homes) with open spaces and community facilities, to be called Mulberry Park. Foxhill already had nearly 900 homes, and in 2014 Curo wanted to redevelop Queens Drive, Kewstoke Road, local shops and Sedgemoor Road. In 2018, Curo decided not to demolish the Foxhill Estate and instead will improve the existing rented properties on the estate. The development of Mulberry Park continued and is set to complete in 2024, although many properties are already occupied and a school and community centre are in full operation.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Thompson |first1=Gavin |title=How will Bath change in 2018? |url=https://www.bathchronicle.co.uk/news/property/how-bath-change-2018-981096 |accessdate=5 August 2018 |work=Bath Chronicle |date=1 January 2018}}</ref>

== Combe Down railway tunnel ==
[[Combe Down Tunnel]] was opened in 1874 and emerges below the southern slopes of the village. It was once the UK's longest railway tunnel ({{convert|1,829|yard|disp=or}}) without intermediate ventilation.<ref>Yorke, Stan (2007). Lost railways of Somerset. Newbury: Countryside Books. pp. 48–60. {{ISBN|978-1-84674-057-2}}</ref> The tunnel now forms part of the £1.8 million [[Two Tunnels Greenway]] walking and cycling path which opened on 6 April 2013. At over a mile long, the Combe Down tunnel is the longest cycling tunnel in Britain and features an interactive light and sound installation as well as mobile phone coverage.<ref>{{cite web | title=Sustrans | work=Bath Two Tunnels Circuit | url=http://www.sustrans.org.uk/ncn/map/route/bath-two-tunnels | accessdate=26 May 2015 | url-status=live | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140116212229/http://www.sustrans.org.uk/ncn/map/route/bath-two-tunnels | archive-date=16 January 2014 | df=dmy-all }}</ref> Its custodian is [[Wessex Water]].

== Jewish burial ground ==
The [[Jewish]] burial ground is a site of historic value on Bradford Road and is one of only fifteen in the country to survive from the [[Georgian period in British history|Georgian]] period.<ref>{{cite web | title=Bath's Historic Jewish Cemetery | work=Friends of Bath Jewish Burial Ground | url=http://www.bathjewishburialground.org/ | accessdate=26 May 2015 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150527163912/http://www.bathjewishburialground.org/ | archive-date=27 May 2015 | df=dmy-all }}</ref> While the burial ground suffered a period of neglect since it ceased to be used in the early 20th century, much remains intact to serve as an important reminder of Bath's historic Jewish community. It dates from 1812, and the last recorded burial was in 1942. The site contains a small building, once thought to be a prayer house (Ohel), but more recent research by the Friends of Bath Jewish Burial Ground.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Friends of Bath Jewish Burial Ground |url=http://bathjewishburialground.org |archive-url= |archive-date= |access-date=}}</ref> who manage the site, have shown that it was a cottage used by the caretakers of the burial ground, and not used for religious purposes. [[English Heritage]] gave the Burial Ground a [[Grade II]] listing in 2006. The site contains two chest tombs and some fifty gravestones, dating from between 1842 and 1921, with both [[Hebrew]] and [[English language|English]] inscriptions. Funds to restore the cottage, conserve the grave stones, repair the boundary wall, replace the gates and develop interpretation of the site have been obtained from a number of charitable sources and a series of restoration works have been undertaken in the period 2015-2022. The site is opened for public visiting several times a year and private access can be arranged by appointment through the Friends.<ref name=":0" />

== De Montalt Mill ==
The De Montalt [[paper mill]] stood on the southern slopes of the village during the 19th century; it gradually fell into picturesque ruin until it was converted into housing during 2007. The mill was built on land owned by Thomas Ralph Maude, [[Viscount Hawarden]] (1767–1807) in the early 19th century and was owned by John Bally (1773&nbsp;– 1854), (a bookseller in [[Milsom Street, Bath|Milsom Street]] in Bath), William Allan or Ellan (1781&nbsp;– 1832) and George Steart (d.1837), all trading as paper-makers under the name of John Bally & Co.<ref name=demontalt>{{cite web | url=http://www.combedown.org/on-combe-down/on-combe-down-1800-1850/ | title=combedown.org | work=De Montalt mills | accessdate=30 May 2015 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150522035927/http://www.combedown.org/on-combe-down/on-combe-down-1800-1850/ | archive-date=22 May 2015 | df=dmy-all }}</ref>

A print dating from the 1850s shows the mill which then possessed the largest [[water wheel]] in England, measuring {{convert|56|ft}} in diameter. It has subsequently been discovered that most of the coloured papers used by [[J. M. W. Turner]] (1775–1851) for a good number of his approximately twenty thousand drawings and watercolours were made at De Montalt Mill.<ref name="demontalt"/> The collection is now housed in The [[Turner Bequest]] at the [[Tate Gallery]], London. The paper was of a very high standard and the watercolour boards were made without being pasted together which ensured they remained free from [[mildew]]; however, despite the early success of the business, it failed in 1834
.<ref name=demontalt1>{{cite web | url=http://www.combedown.org/on-combe-down/on-combe-down-1850-1900/ | title=combedown.org | work=De Montalt Mills and Charles Middleton Kernot | accessdate=30 May 2015 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150522035921/http://www.combedown.org/on-combe-down/on-combe-down-1850-1900/ | archive-date=22 May 2015 | df=dmy-all }}</ref> The premises were then sold to wholesale stationer William Jennings Allen (1807&nbsp;– 1839).<ref name="demontalt1"/> After his death it was sold to Charles Middleton Kernot (1807&nbsp;– 1876) to be used as a ‘manufactory of patent interlocked and dovetailed felted cloths’.<ref name="demontalt1"/> By 1859 it was used for a [[laundry]] run by the Bath Washing Company Ltd. and later used for a variety of purposes including [[market gardening]] (1871); and [[cabinet making]] from (1875) until the lease expired in 1905 and it closed.<ref>{{cite book | last=Addison | first=Peter | title=Around Combe Down | publisher=Millstream Book | date = 1998 | isbn=9780948975486}}</ref> In the 20th century cows and pigs were being reared on the site.<ref>{{cite web | title=History of Bath Research Group | work=Newsletter No. 54, May 2005 | url=http://historyofbath.org.uk/NewsLetters%5CNo%2054%20May%202005.pdf | accessdate=26 May 2015 | url-status=live | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170316105707/http://historyofbath.org.uk/NewsLetters/No%2054%20May%202005.pdf | archive-date=16 March 2017 | df=dmy-all }}</ref>

Various parts of the mill have Grade II [[listed building]] status, including the southern range which consisted of the apprentice shops and stores,<ref name="DMS">{{cite web |author=[[Historic England]] |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=447483 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071202011550/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=447483 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2007-12-02 |title=De Montalt Works (South Range) (447483) |work=[[Images of England]] }}</ref> the main east block which was the printing works where notes were printed for the [[Bank of England]] – later converted to cabinet manufacturing<ref name="DME">{{cite web |author=[[Historic England]] |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=447482 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071013165831/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=447482 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2007-10-13 |title=De Montalt Works (Main East Block) (447482) |work=[[Images of England]] }}</ref> and the chimney.<ref name="DMC">{{cite web |author=[[Historic England]] |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=447484 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071113143910/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=447484 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2007-11-13 |title=Chimney to West of De Montalt Works (447484) |work=[[Images of England]] }}</ref> De Montalt, an [[Italianate architecture|Italianate]] villa set in the grounds is also grade II listed.<ref name="DM">{{cite web |author=[[Historic England]] |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=447481 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071012141652/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=447481 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2007-10-12 |title=De Montalt (447481) |work=[[Images of England]] }}</ref>

The mill and its associated buildings were converted to residential use during 2007, with the main mill building being converted into four apartments.<ref>{{cite web | title=Planning Application | work=B&NES Council | url=http://idox.bathnes.gov.uk/WAM/doc/Application%20Form-75121.pdf?extension=.pdf&wmTransparency=0&id=75121&wmLocation=0&location=VOLUME1&contentType=application%2Fpdf&wmName=&pageCount=2 | accessdate=27 December 2006 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722030756/http://idox.bathnes.gov.uk/WAM/doc/Application%20Form-75121.pdf?extension=.pdf&wmTransparency=0&id=75121&wmLocation=0&location=VOLUME1&contentType=application%2Fpdf&wmName=&pageCount=2 | archive-date=22 July 2011 | df=dmy-all }}</ref>  Elements of the conversion featured in the [[Channel 4]] television programme ''[[Grand Designs]]''.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.threefoldarchitects.com/assets/Uploads/press-pdfs/AppGD-Mag.pdf | title=Grand Designs | work=Thoroughly modern mill | accessdate=30 May 2015 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304092831/http://www.threefoldarchitects.com/assets/Uploads/press-pdfs/AppGD-Mag.pdf | archive-date=4 March 2016 | df=dmy-all }}</ref>

== Local flora ==
A local woodland wild flower is the Bath Asparagus, also known as the Spiked Star of Bethlehem ([[Ornithogalum pyrenaicum]]). The flowers appear in June after the leaves die; the leaves resemble bluebell leaves but are a softer green and not as glossy. The flowering spike is up to one metre high.<ref>{{cite book | title=Gardening with Woodland Plants | last=Junker | first=Karan | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dk28nOOY2IAC&dq=Ornithogalum+pyrenaicum&pg=PA271 | accessdate=7 April 2008 | year=2007 | publisher=Timber Press | isbn=978-0-88192-821-1 | page=271 | url-status=live | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171209110124/https://books.google.com/books?id=dk28nOOY2IAC&pg=PA271&dq=Ornithogalum+pyrenaicum | archive-date=9 December 2017 | df=dmy-all }}</ref> At the unopened stage the flowers used to be gathered in small quantities as a fresh vegetable by local people; it was also occasionally sold in local markets, but picking the flowers today is not encouraged as wild asparagus is becoming rare. According to research carried out by [[Avon Wildlife Trust]] the plant is found throughout [[Europe]] but has only a limited UK distribution. It is possible that the flower was first brought to the Bath area as seeds carried on the wheels and hooves of [[Ancient Rome|Roman]] vehicles and animals.

''Allium ursinum'', also known as [[Ramsons]] or wild garlic, is abundant in the [[National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty|National Trust]] woodlands adjacent to Combe Down during the spring.2015.

== Grade I and II listed buildings on Combe Down ==
There are 79 [[Grade I listed buildings in Bath and North East Somerset|Grade I]] and [[Listed building|Grade II listed buildings]] – a building officially designated as being of special architectural, historical, or cultural significance&nbsp;– on Combe Down, the earliest dating from 1729 and the latest from 1909. They are from three main phases of building activity.

The first phase was c. 1700–1742. These are the buildings at Combe Grove, and the buildings commissioned by Ralph Allen at Prior Park and at De Montalt Place on Church Road.

The second phase was c. 1800 – c. 1820. These are mainly buildings along Combe Road, Summer Lane, and Church Road at Isabella Place and from Claremont House to Hopecote Lodge, which were built soon after the death of [[Cornwallis Maude, 1st Viscount Hawarden]] (1729–1803) who died with substantial debts<ref>{{cite web | title=combedown.org | work=Prior to Now | url=http://www.combedown.org/on-combe-down/ | accessdate=28 May 2015 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150522035857/http://www.combedown.org/on-combe-down/ | archive-date=22 May 2015 | df=dmy-all }}</ref> which led to the break-up of the De Montalt estate in Bath,<ref>{{cite web | title=combedown.org | work=Prior to Now | url=http://www.combedown.org/on-combe-down/on-combe-down-from-1800/ | accessdate=28 May 2015 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150522035901/http://www.combedown.org/on-combe-down/on-combe-down-from-1800/ | archive-date=22 May 2015 | df=dmy-all }}</ref> as speculators in property and mining took the opportunity.

The third phase was Victorian, from c. 1830 to 1860. Combe Down had become known as a place for [[convalescence]] and "[[Air pollution|good air]]" (away from polluted cities) and, being only about {{convert|1.5|mi}} from Bath, was perfect for this as well as for [[middle class]] [[professional]]s. These are mainly buildings along North Road, The Avenue, Belmont Road and Church Road east of Hopecote Lodge.

A list of these listed buildings with links to [[Images of England]]&nbsp;– an online photographic record of all the listed buildings in England at the date of February 2001 – is given below.

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Shaft Road
* Lodge Style<ref>{{cite web |author=[[Historic England]] |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=443503 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606223856/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=443503 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2011-06-06 |title=Lodge Style (443503) |work=[[Images of England]] }}</ref>
* Combe Grove Manor hotel<ref>{{NHLE |num=1215151 |desc=Combe Grove Manor hotel |accessdate=27 May 2015}}</ref>
North Road
* 100 to 104 North Road<ref>{{cite web |author=[[Historic England]] |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=446807 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606191751/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=446807 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2011-06-06 |title=100 to 104 North Road (446807) |work=[[Images of England]] }}</ref>
* Tyning House<ref>{{cite web |author=[[Historic England]] |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=446822 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071126183627/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=446822 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2007-11-26 |title=Tyning House (446822) |work=[[Images of England]] }}</ref>
* Victoria Cottage<ref>{{cite web |author=[[Historic England]] |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=446823 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071209200051/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=446823 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2007-12-09 |title=Victoria Cottage (446823) |work=[[Images of England]] }}</ref>
* 1 to 3 Oxford Place<ref>{{cite web |author=[[Historic England]] |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=446809 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071119223825/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=446809 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2007-11-19 |title=1 to 3 Oxford Place (446809) |work=[[Images of England]] }}</ref>
* 106A North Road<ref>{{cite web |author=[[Historic England]] |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=446808 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071202013940/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=446808 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2007-12-02 |title=106A North Road (446808) |work=[[Images of England]] }}</ref>
* 124 to 128 North Road<ref>{{cite web |author=[[Historic England]] |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=446824 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606183744/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=446824 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2011-06-06 |title=124 to 128 North Road (446824) |work=[[Images of England]] }}</ref>
* 130 and 132 North Road<ref name="Historic England">{{cite web |author=[[Historic England]] |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=446825 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606183920/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=446825 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2011-06-06 |title=130 and 132 North Road (446825) |work=[[Images of England]] }}</ref>
* 134 and 136 North Road<ref>{{cite web |author=[[Historic England]] |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=446826 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606184127/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=446826 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2011-06-06 |title=134 and 136 North Road (446826) |work=[[Images of England]] }}</ref>
* 138 North Road<ref>{{cite web |author=[[Historic England]] |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=446827 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606185514/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=446827 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2011-06-06 |title=138 North Road (446827) |work=[[Images of England]] }}</ref>
* 140 and 140A North Road<ref>{{cite web |author=[[Historic England]] |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=446828 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071117185447/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=446828 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2007-11-17 |title=140 and 140A North Road (446828) |work=[[Images of England]] }}</ref>
* 142 North Road<ref>{{cite web |author=[[Historic England]] |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=446829 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606185648/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=446829 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2011-06-06 |title=142 North Road (446829) |work=[[Images of England]] }}</ref>
* 144 North Road<ref>{{cite web |author=[[Historic England]] |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=446830 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606185709/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=446830 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2011-06-06 |title=144 North Road (446830) |work=[[Images of England]] }}</ref>
* 146 to 152 North Road<ref>{{cite web |author=[[Historic England]] |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=446831 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071030042426/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=446831 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2007-10-30 |title=146 to 152 North Road (446831) |work=[[Images of England]] }}</ref>
* 154 and 156 North Road<ref>{{cite web |author=[[Historic England]] |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=447005 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606190030/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=447005 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2011-06-06 |title=154 and 156 North Road (447005) |work=[[Images of England]] }}</ref>
The Avenue
* Hadley Arms<ref name="Hadley">{{cite web |author=[[Historic England]] |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=446806 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071130010301/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=446806 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2007-11-30 |title=Hadley Arms (446806) |work=[[Images of England]] }}</ref>
* 1 and 2 Park Place<ref>{{cite web |author=[[Historic England]] |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=444189 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606223505/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=444189 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2011-06-06 |title=1 and 2 Park Place (444189) |work=[[Images of England]] }}</ref>
* 3 Park Place<ref>{{cite web |author=[[Historic England]] |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=444190 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071209200911/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=444190 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2007-12-09 |title=No 3 Park Place (444190) |work=[[Images of England]] }}</ref>
* 2 Avenue Place<ref>{{cite web |author=[[Historic England]] |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=444192 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606172951/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=444192 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2011-06-06 |title=2 Avenue Place (444192) |work=[[Images of England]] }}</ref>
* 3 to 5 Avenue Place<ref>{{cite web |author=[[Historic England]] |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=444193 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606173011/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=444193 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2011-06-06 |title=3 to 5 Avenue Place (444193) |work=[[Images of England]] }}</ref>
* Isabella House<ref>{{cite web |author=[[Historic England]] |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=444191 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606223902/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=444191 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2011-06-06 |title=Isabella House (444191) |work=[[Images of England]] }}</ref>
Combe Road
* 16 to 22 Combe Road<ref>{{cite web |author=[[Historic England]] |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=445141 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606180451/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=445141 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2011-06-06 |title=16 to 22 Combe Road (445141) |work=[[Images of England]] }}</ref>
* 24 Combe Road<ref>{{cite web |author=[[Historic England]] |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=445143 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606180516/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=445143 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2011-06-06 |title=24 Combe Road (445143) |work=[[Images of England]] }}</ref>
* 26 to 30 Combe Road<ref>{{cite web |author=[[Historic England]] |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=445144 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071108074600/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=445144 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2007-11-08 |title=26 to 30 Combe Road (445144) |work=[[Images of England]] }}</ref>
* 158 to 162 Priory Place<ref>{{cite web |author=[[Historic England]] |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=447006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071204012315/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=447006 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2007-12-04 |title=158 to 162 Priory Place (447006) |work=[[Images of England]] }}</ref>
* 42 and 44 Combe Road<ref>{{cite web |author=[[Historic England]] |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=445145 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606180741/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=445145 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2011-06-06 |title=42 and 44 Combe Road (445145) |work=[[Images of England]] }}</ref>
* 46 and 48 Combe Road<ref>{{cite web |author=[[Historic England]] |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=445146 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071202015326/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=445146 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2007-12-02 |title=46 and 48 Combe Road (445146) |work=[[Images of England]] }}</ref>
* 50 and 52 Combe Road<ref>{{cite web |author=[[Historic England]] |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=445147 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071116180718/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=445147 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2007-11-16 |title=50 and 52 Combe Road (445147) |work=[[Images of England]] }}</ref>
* King William IV<ref name="King-William">{{cite web |author=[[Historic England]] |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=447264 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121021231454/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=447264 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-10-21 |title=King William IV (447264) |work=[[Images of England]] }}</ref>
* Rock Hall House<ref>{{cite web |author=[[Historic England]] |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=447265 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071210214144/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=447265 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2007-12-10 |title=Rock Hall House (447265) |work=[[Images of England]] }}</ref>
* 62 Combe Road<ref>{{cite web |author=[[Historic England]] |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=445148 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606183516/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=445148 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2011-06-06 |title=62 Combe Road (445148) |work=[[Images of England]] }}</ref>
* 1 to 3 Byfield Buildings<ref>{{cite web |author=[[Historic England]] |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=445149 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606173749/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=445149 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2011-06-06 |title=1 to 3 Byfield Buildings (445149) |work=[[Images of England]] }}</ref>
* 1 to 5 Byfield Place<ref>{{cite web |author=[[Historic England]] |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=445150 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606174244/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=445150 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2011-06-06 |title=1 to 5 Byfield Place (445150) |work=[[Images of England]] }}</ref>
Summer Lane
* 1 to 13 Quarry Vale Cottages<ref>{{cite web |author=[[Historic England]] |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=447480 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606223656/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=447480 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2011-06-06 |title=1 to 13 Quarry Vale Cottages (447480) |work=[[Images of England]] }}</ref>
* De Montalt<ref name="DM"/>
* Chimney to West of De Montalt Works<ref name="DMC"/>
* De Montalt Works (Main East Block)<ref name="DME"/>
* De Montalt Works (South Range)<ref name="DMS"/>
* 1 to 3 De Montalt Cottages<ref>{{cite web |author=[[Historic England]] |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=447485 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071205022744/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=447485 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2007-12-05 |title=1 to 3 De Montalt Cottages (447485) |work=[[Images of England]] }}</ref>
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Belmont Road
* West Brow<ref>{{cite web |author=[[Historic England]] |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=444375 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071201020550/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=444375 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2007-12-01 |title=West Brow (444375) |work=[[Images of England]] }}</ref>
* Ashlands<ref>{{cite web |author=[[Historic England]] |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=444381 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071110091432/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=444381 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2007-11-10 |title=Ashlands (444381) |work=[[Images of England]] }}</ref>
* Belmont<ref>{{cite web |author=[[Historic England]] |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=444380 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071209195714/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=444380 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2007-12-09 |title=Belmont (444380) |work=[[Images of England]] }}</ref>
* Combe Ridge<ref>{{cite web |author=[[Historic England]] |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=444379 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071031040117/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=444379 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2007-10-31 |title=Combe Ridge (444379) |work=[[Images of England]] }}</ref>
* St. Christopher<ref name=StC>{{cite web |author=[[Historic England]] |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=444378 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071110093318/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=444378 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2007-11-10 |title=St. Christopher (444378) |work=[[Images of England]] }}</ref>
* Vale View House<ref>{{cite web |author=[[Historic England]] |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=444377 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071118213344/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=444377 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2007-11-18 |title=Vale View House (444377) |work=[[Images of England]] }}</ref>
Church Road
* 71 to 79 Church Road<ref>{{cite web |author=[[Historic England]] |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=444896 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071113142049/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=444896 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2007-11-13 |title=71 to 79 Church Road (444896) |work=[[Images of England]] }}</ref>
* 81 Church Road<ref>{{cite web |author=[[Historic England]] |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=444897 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071115164013/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=444897 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2007-11-15 |title=81 Church Road (444897) |work=[[Images of England]] }}</ref>
* 1 De Montalt Place<ref>{{cite web |author=[[Historic England]] |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=444194 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606183715/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=444194 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2011-06-06 |title=1 De Montalt Place (444194) |work=[[Images of England]] }}</ref>
* 83 to 101 Church Road<ref>{{cite web |author=[[Historic England]] |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=444898 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071128234155/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=444898 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2007-11-28 |title=83 to 101 Church Road (444898) |work=[[Images of England]] }}</ref>
* Church Of The Holy Trinity<ref name="Holy-Trinity"/>
* The Vicarage<ref>{{cite web |author=[[Historic England]] |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=444899 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071109083739/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=444899 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2007-11-09 |title=The Vicarage (444899) |work=[[Images of England]] }}</ref>
* Claremont House<ref>{{cite web |author=[[Historic England]] |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=444900 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606174328/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=444900 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2011-06-06 |title=Claremont House (444900) |work=[[Images of England]] }}</ref>
* Union Chapel<ref name="Union-Chapel"/>
* 113 to 117 Church Road<ref>{{cite web |author=[[Historic England]] |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=444902 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071203020016/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=444902 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2007-12-03 |title=113 to 117 Church Road (444902) |work=[[Images of England]] }}</ref>
* Hope Cote Lodge<ref>{{cite web |author=[[Historic England]] |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=444903 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071111101511/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=444903 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2007-11-11 |title=Hope Cote Lodge (444903) |work=[[Images of England]] }}</ref>
* Combe Down junior school<ref>{{cite web |author=[[Historic England]] |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=448656 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071203020147/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=448656 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2007-12-03 |title=Combe Down junior school (448656) |work=[[Images of England]] }}</ref>
* Combe Lodge<ref>{{cite web |author=[[Historic England]] |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=444904 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071122022639/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=444904 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2007-11-22 |title=Combe Lodge (444904) |work=[[Images of England]] }}</ref>
* Lodge to the Brow<ref>{{cite web |author=[[Historic England]] |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=444982 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071203015645/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=444982 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2007-12-03 |title=Lodge to the Brow (444982) |work=[[Images of England]] }}</ref>
* The Brow<ref>{{cite web |author=[[Historic England]] |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=444981 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071113141701/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=444981 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2007-11-13 |title=The Brow (444981) |work=[[Images of England]] }}</ref>
* 141 Church Road<ref>{{cite web |author=[[Historic England]] |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=444905 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071117184852/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=444905 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2007-11-17 |title=141 Church Road (444905) |work=[[Images of England]] }}</ref>
* Combe House<ref>{{cite web |author=[[Historic England]] |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=442543 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071207200102/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=442543 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2007-12-07 |title=Combe House (442543) |work=[[Images of England]] }}</ref>
* 149 Church Road<ref>{{cite web |author=[[Historic England]] |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=444906 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606175041/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=444906 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2011-06-06 |title=149 Church Road (444906) |work=[[Images of England]] }}</ref>
* 151 Church Road<ref>{{cite web |author=[[Historic England]] |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=444907 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150527173500/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=444907 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2015-05-27 |title=151 Church Road (444907) |work=[[Images of England]] }}</ref>
* 153–155 Church Road (one property)<ref>{{cite web |author=[[Historic England]] |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=444380 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071209195714/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=444380 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2007-12-09 |title=153 and 155 Church Road (444380) |work=[[Images of England]] }}</ref>
* 157 Church Road<ref>{{cite web |author=[[Historic England]] |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=444909 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606175153/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=444909 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2011-06-06 |title=157 Church Road (444909) |work=[[Images of England]] }}</ref>
* 159 Church Road<ref>{{cite web |author=[[Historic England]] |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=444910 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606175221/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=444910 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2011-06-06 |title=159 Church Road (444910) |work=[[Images of England]] }}</ref>
Prior Park
* [[Prior Park]] (now [[Prior Park College]])<ref>{{cite web |author=[[Historic England]] |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=443306 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080929093503/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=443306 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2008-09-29 |title=Prior Park (443306) |work=[[Images of England]] }}</ref>
* Prior Park Gymnasium<ref>{{cite web |author=[[Historic England]] |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=447140 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141029213445/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=447140 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2014-10-29 |title=Prior Park Gymnasium (447140) |work=[[Images of England]] }}</ref>
* The Priory<ref>{{cite web |author=[[Historic England]] |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=447137 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160829123303/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=447137 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2016-08-29 |title=The Priory (447137) |work=[[Images of England]] }}</ref>
* Palladian Bridge<ref>{{cite web |author=[[Historic England]] |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=443307 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121018034426/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=443307 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-10-18 |title=Palladian Bridge (443307) |work=[[Images of England]] }}</ref>
* Porter's Lodge<ref>{{cite web |author=[[Historic England]] |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=443397 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402104108/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=443397 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2015-04-02 |title=Porter's Lodge (443397) |work=[[Images of England]] }}</ref>
* Church of St. Paul<ref>{{cite web |author=[[Historic England]] |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=443308 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121018034250/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=443308 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-10-18 |title=Church of St. Paul (443308) |work=[[Images of England]] }}</ref>
* Middle gateway<ref>{{cite web |author=[[Historic England]] |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=448529 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304233700/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=448529 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2016-03-04 |title=Middle gateway (448529) |work=[[Images of England]] }}</ref>
* Garden archway<ref>{{cite web |author=[[Historic England]] |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=447138 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160829123246/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=447138 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2016-08-29 |title=Garden archway (447138) |work=[[Images of England]] }}</ref>
* Grotto<ref>{{cite web |author=[[Historic England]] |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=443309 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307045636/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=443309 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2016-03-07 |title=Grotto (443309) |work=[[Images of England]] }}</ref>
* Ice house<ref>{{cite web |author=[[Historic England]] |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=443310 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307063816/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=443310 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2016-03-07 |title=Ice house (443310) |work=[[Images of England]] }}</ref>
* Pool screen wall<ref>{{cite web |author=[[Historic England]] |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=447139 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402134843/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=447139 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2015-04-02 |title=Pool screen wall (447139) |work=[[Images of England]] }}</ref>
* Gate posts to drive<ref>{{cite web |author=[[Historic England]] |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=443398 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305011829/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=443398 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2016-03-05 |title=Gate posts to drive (443398) |work=[[Images of England]] }}</ref>
* Gate posts to entrance<ref>{{cite web |author=[[Historic England]] |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=443399 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150528160034/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=443399 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2015-05-28 |title=Gate posts to entrance (443399) |work=[[Images of England]] }}</ref>
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== Notable residents ==
[[Harry Patch|Henry John Patch]] (better known as Harry Patch, the "Last Fighting Tommy") was born in Combe Down in 1898; both his father and grandfather were Combe Down [[stonemasons]]. His family home is still in existence in Gladstone Road.  Patch was briefly the third oldest man in the world<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.grg.org/Adams/E.HTM |title=Validated living supercentenarians |publisher=Gerontology Research group |accessdate=26 May 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071126092018/http://www.grg.org/Adams/E.HTM |archive-date=26 November 2007  }}</ref> and the last [[trench warfare|trench]] veteran of [[World War I]], a status which earned him international fame during the early 21st century. He died in July 2009, aged 111, by which time he was the last soldier to have fought in the trenches during World War One as well as the second last surviving British war veteran and one of four surviving soldiers from the conflict worldwide. His memoir ''The Last Fighting Tommy'' (published in 2007) records his Combe Down childhood in some detail. His funeral cortège passed through Combe Down village on its way to his burial in [[Monkton Combe]] churchyard.

[[Herbert Lambert]] (1881–1936), society [[Portrait photography|portrait photographer]] and [[harpsichord]] and [[clavichord]] maker.<ref>{{cite book | last=Mirrey | first=Lynne | title=Pioneers of the English Clavichord Revival | publisher=The British Clavichord Society Newsletter, No 41 | date=2008}}</ref>

[[Frederic Weatherly]] (1848–1929), the composer of the song [[Danny Boy]], lived at Grosvenor Lodge (now renamed St Christopher )<ref name="StC"/> in Belmont Road during the second decade of the 20th century.<ref>{{cite news |title=Bath should honour links to writer of Danny Boy Frederick Weatherly |url=http://www.bathchronicle.co.uk/Bath-honour-links-writer-Danny-Boy-Frederick/story-20362317-detail/story.html |accessdate=26 May 2015 |publisher=Bath Chronicle |date=26 December 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923182756/http://www.bathchronicle.co.uk/Bath-honour-links-writer-Danny-Boy-Frederick/story-20362317-detail/story.html |archive-date=23 September 2015  }}</ref>

[[Charlotte McDonnell]], once the most subscribed-to [[YouTube]] [[vlogger]] in the United Kingdom, grew up in Combe Down before moving to London in 2010.<ref name="BBC">{{cite news | title=Teenager's tea tips cause a stir | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/somerset/7022544.stm | publisher=[[BBC]] | date=1 October 2007 | accessdate=26 May 2015 | url-status=live | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120313132859/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/somerset/7022544.stm | archive-date=13 March 2012 | df=dmy-all }}</ref>

[[Eliza Humphreys|Eliza Margaret Jane Humphreys]] (1850–1938), a novelist using the pen name 'Rita', lived in Richardson Avenue (now The Firs) in the 1920s before moving to the house called West Brow.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette|date=5 February 1938}}</ref>

[[Rod Adams]] (born 1945), a former professional footballer who started his career in Foxhill Rangers.<ref>{{Hugman|62|Rodney Adams |access-date=2023-09-28}}</ref>

== References ==
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== External links ==
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