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'Combe Hay' is a village in the English county of Somerset. It falls within the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
Combe Hay was known in the Domesday Book as Cumb. The village includes a church with a 15th century tower, a Georgian manor house^[1] and Georgian rectory.^[2]
Coombe Hay was the site of a series of locks, dating from 1805 on the Somerset Coal Canal on which research and restoration is proposed.^[3] It is the site of the only Caisson lock ever built which was near the current Caisson House.^[4] Many of the locks and associated workings are listed buildings.^[5][6]
It was also served by the Camerton and Limpley Stoke Railway, and was the site of a Fuller's Earth mine until 1979.

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1. Combe Hay Manor
2. The Old Rectory
3. Grant unlocks Canal's secret history
4. Caisson House
5. Flight of 10 locks
6. Remains of the Basin at the bottom of the Inclined Plane

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★ Area 12 Cam and Wellow Brook Valleys

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