What is recorded here

Castle Combe is a narrow Wiltshire valley where the By Brook still rushes toward the Avon, giving birth to mills, cloth work and a village that a national newspaper called arguably the prettiest in England in 1962. Roman roads, coin hoards, Saxon plough teams, a motte-and-bailey castle, deer parks, rabbit warrens, market crosses and sheep fairs all layered the place before tourists arrived. The brook did not merely scenicise the combe; it made the combe useful, and usefulness is why the village exists.

A named place photographed at this map point in Wiltshire.

Built by the de La Warr family in the 13th century, Castle Combe is remembered as one of the best-preserved medieval castles in England and a notable example of domestic architecture from the late Middle Ages.