Introduction to Combe Martin

Introduction to Combe Martin
] de Tours [de Turribus, knight]", after the Norman Conquest in 1066 (The House of Martin &c., 1906, pp. 3-18).  Sanders (Oxford, 1960), states that the ‘Martin…

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]. The dispute involved the monks of St Pancras, probably at the prestigious Cluniac Lewes Priory, and Robert fitz Martin, son of Combe Martin overlord Martin de Tours. Evid…

Early Silver Mining in Combe Martin

Early Silver Mining in Combe Martin
, Camden reported "some old 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…