Combe

Combe is a small village and parish, in a deep valley on the Hampshire border and surrounded by downs, 6 miles south-east from Hungerford station on the Great Western railway, in Pastrow hundred, petty sessional division of Kingsclere, Hungerford county court district, Hungerford and Ramsbury union, rural deanery of Kingsclere and archdeaconry and diocese of Winchester. Under the provisions of the "Local Government Act, 1894" (56 and 57 Vict. c. 73), this parish, on April 3, 1895, was transferred from Hants to Berks for civil purposes only.