Combe Martin Pack o' Cards Inn

Combe Martin Pack o' Cards Inn
…squire George Ley won a game of cards. The inn mimics a deck of cards including the Joker: 52 windows, 4 floors (suits), 13 rooms per floor, and 52 stairs. The plot measured…

Combe Martin - Visitation 1744

Combe Martin - Visitation 1744
) that the Combe Martin charity school for teaching forty children reading, writing, and arithmetic, was endowed in 1733 with a house and land, the gift of George Ley, Esq. G…

Combe Martin in 1831-1845

Combe Martin in 1831-1845
…Independents. A school was endowed, in 1733, by George Ley, Esq., with land producing £25 per annum : the premises were rebuilt a few years since, by George

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…significant role in Henry VIII's Dissolution of the Monasteries. Benevolent Squire George Ley established the Combe Martin Free School in 1716, and the Ley fami…

Combe Martin Landmarks

Combe Martin Landmarks
…and dates to around 1690.  Shammickite folklore maintains the inn was built by Squire George Ley after his spectacular win at cards.  Formerly The King's Arms Family and Com…

Combe Martin Community Centre

Combe Martin Community Centre
…Directory (1902) reported that in 1716, the National Boys School was founded here, and endowed by George Ley esq.  In the Episcopal Visitation Returns of 1774, Combe Martin…

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Churches

Churches
…& Monuments Memorials dedicated to George Ley (1716), Judith Ivatt (1634), and William Hancock (1587, marked with brass). WWI and WWII Memorial Cross located in the Garden o…

Combe Martin Industrial History

Combe Martin Industrial History
 had half an acre of land attached to it, and it was founded in 1738 by landowning gent George Ley, who endowed it subject to 20s. a year for the poor parishioners. The schoo…

Introduction to Combe Martin

Introduction to Combe Martin
…the governors of the National School - established in 1733 by George Ley - entrusted the master with forty silver sixpences to be allotted to the poor folk. Historian Fred J…