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  Coombe Hill, Buckinghamshire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Coombe Hill is a hill in The Chilterns, located near the town of Wendover, and overlooks Aylesbury Vale.
It is not to be confused with another Coombe Hill on the flank of Haddington Hill, some 4 kilometres to the north-east.
The hill once formed part of the Chequers Estate but was given to the National Trust by the UK government when they were given the estate in the 1920s.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Coombe_Hill,_Buckinghamshire   (165 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Coombe Hill, Buckinghamshire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
The Chiltern Hills are a chalk escarpment that stretches in a south-west to north-east diagonal across several counties of southern England, but is most prominent in Buckinghamshire.
Jump to: navigation, search Haddington Hill is a hill in The Chilterns, and the highest point in the English county of Buckinghamshire.
Chequers, or Chequers Court, is a large house to the south east of Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire, England, that sits at the foot of the Chiltern Hills.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Coombe-Hill,-Buckinghamshire   (792 words)

  
 Coombe Hill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Coombe Hill, a place in Buckinghamshire, England on the flank of Haddington Hill.
Coombe Hill, a place in East Sussex, England.
This is a disambiguation page — a list of articles associated with the same title.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Coombe_Hill   (85 words)

  
 Tina Williams - October 1999 Featured Artist at ArtQuest
Coombe River Bridge beckons you to have a picnic by the water's edge.
Tina loves the rolling hills in California, especially the stretch from Santa Barbara to San Luis Obispo, and enjoys watching the seasons change from brown in the winter to the bright green of spring and fading to yellow-brown in the summer.
The Coombe Hills Series further explores the ambiance and scenery first portrayed by Coombe Hill Woods--a painting which was easily the most admired of the thirty-two works on exhibit in her first show in downtown Los Angeles last fall.
www.artquest.com /Giveaway/10-99feature.htm   (1527 words)

  
 The present Ruskin House, Coombe Hill House
The elegant well-proportioned red brick house, now known as Ruskin House but historically as Coombe Hill House, is well known to many Croydon residents due to its prominent position on the junction of Coombe Road and Park Lane.
The garden at Ruskin House, formerly Coombe Hill House, is rather typical of a grand Georgian town house.
Coombe Hill House c.1858, with the stable block to the left, and the domed extension to the right.
www.croydon.org.uk /Ruskin/combhill.html   (2005 words)

  
 EIGCA | Articles | Coombe Hill - A Case Study in Golf Course Renovation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
This is evident in the setting and gentle shaping of the greens at Coombe Hill which is one of the great strengths of the golf course.
The three par 5's at Coombe Hill, like on many courses of the same vintage, suffered from a lack of length with no room to increase them significantly.
Coombe Hill has benefited greatly from taking professional advice and a pragmatic approach to the development of the course.
www.eigca.org /articles13.php   (1278 words)

  
 Camb. Flora Part II: Puccinellia distans
The records and statements from the Coombe and Oswald surveys in 1992-1994 are taken from 'Maritime' plants of roads in Cambridgeshire (Vc29) by DE Coombe, Nat.
Abundant on slip-road from A.45 eastwards to A.1303, DE Coombe, 25.11.1992, but destroyed (?temporarily) by extensive remaking of slip-road verges and A.45 verges and central reservation from Quy Church to A.11 junction at Nine Mile Hill (no P. distans on this stretch of A.45 in 1993).
On roundabout at junction of A.10 and A.142 on Ely bypass, 527.794, DE Coombe, 20.7.1992, but this and the roundabout to the south of Ely both remade winter 1993/94; Abundant on bypass (A.10) between these two roundabouts, DE Coombe, 6.8.1992 and 1.10.1993.
www.mnlg.com /gc/species2pz/p/puc_dis.html   (2363 words)

  
 Coombe Hill - TheBestLinks.com - Bronze Age, England, Neolithic, TheBestLinks.com:Find or fix a stub, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Coombe Hill - TheBestLinks.com - Bronze Age, England, Neolithic, TheBestLinks.com:Find or fix a stub,...
Coombe Hill, Bronze Age, England, Neolithic, TheBestLinks.com:Find or fix a...
Coombe Hill or Combe Hill is the name of a hill near Jevington in the English county of East Sussex.
www.thebestlinks.com /Coombe_Hill.html   (196 words)

  
 Gloucestershire Naturalists' Society: news
At Coombe Hill, the scrapes are full, but there is no flooding; on 29 October there were 300 Teal (a respectable number for the season), 60 Wigeon, 14 Snipe and four Green Sandpipers with at least one Stonechat.
At both Ashleworth and Coombe Hill, water levels have dropped as usual, though the massive thunderstrom (nearly three inches of rain in the afternoon at Ashleworth) on 10 September soon refilled the scrapes at Coombe Hill.
The GWT Coombe Hill Biodiversity Challenge, over the weekend of 2/3 July, had the aim of recording 500 species (all species combined - invetebrates, birds, and flowers) and seems to have reached its target easily: the last figure heard was 538 species, with several species of insect as yet unidentified.
www.glosnats.org.uk /news/news.php   (3353 words)

  
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It was a hill with short cuts favourably known to small boys and to tramps with a distaste for highways; but this tramp, not being a real one, knew none of them, and was compelled to do exactly as the hill did.
Coombe is considered a healthy place, isn't it?" "Danged healthy." The commiseration in the other's tone lent to the simple question such an obvious meaning that the doctor hardly knew whether to be amused or annoyed.
Coombe she had worshipped, yet his death had not affected her as much as might have been feared.
www.gutenberg.org /dirs/1/0/4/3/10438/10438-8.txt   (23082 words)

  
 Hidden Kingston upon Thames?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
There is a conduit house with a conduit room on Coombe Hill (near Cheyne Walk).
Coombe Conduit, one of kingston's most histric buildings, will be open to the public on Sunday from 2pm to 4pm (10 April 2005).
It stands in Coombe Lane West, and was built for Henry VIII in about 1540 to collect fresh water from the springs on kingston Hill, and channel it underground to his palace at Hampton Court.
www.rayd.co.uk /blogs/rayblog.nsf/d6plinks/HiddenKingstonUThames   (409 words)

  
 LondonTown.com | Coombe Hill Road Guide | Coombe Hill Road London, SW20, England, UK | London Streets by Street | ...
Coombe Hill Road is located in the borough of Kingston upon Thames
The nearest underground station to Coombe Hill Road is 'Wimbledon ' which is about 67 minutes to the North East.
Wimbledon tube, Wimbledon Hill Road, (67 mins to the North East)
www.londontown.com /LondonStreets/coombe_hill_road_b0b.html   (128 words)

  
 LondonTown.com | Coombe Hill Road Guide | Coombe Hill Road London, WD3, England, UK | London Streets by Street | London ...
Coombe Hill Road London, WD3, England, UK
Coombe Hill Road is located in the borough of Three Rivers District
The nearest underground station to Coombe Hill Road is 'Rickmansworth ' which is about 28 minutes to the South East.
www.londontown.com /LondonStreets/coombe_hill_road_fa7.html   (124 words)

  
 Thames Valley Guide - Coombe Hill   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
The highest viewpoint in the Chilterns, Coombe Hill, owned by the National Trust, offers some truly spectacular views of Aylesbury Vale and the Chilterns.
Coombe Hill and the surrounding countryside cover a vast area with many public footpaths through woodlands and across open land.
A wheelchair could probably also be pushed up when the ground is dry, but it would likely be hard work and a bit bumpy at times.
www.thamesvalleyguide.co.uk /to_do/walks/coombe_hill.htm   (288 words)

  
 Feeling nostalgic
The Birdlip hill is very nice on the way down but not so nice when going upwards.
May be wrong about Coombe Hill, especially as you say "up Cricley, down Birdlip".
Coombe Hill is a place along the A38 (Gloucester to Tewkesbury section).
www.cyclingforums.com /t23759.html   (1104 words)

  
 BBC - Gloucestershire Features - A year in the (wild)life
Coombe Hill nature reserve is a 214 acre wildlife haven near Gloucester.
On the second Sunday of every month in 2005, BBC Gloucestershire's Country Matters show will be reporting from Coombe Hill nature reserve.
The Coombe Hill site is considered critically important to establishing the Severn Vale as a major wetland conservation area.
www.bbc.co.uk /gloucestershire/focus/2005/01/wildlife_reserve.shtml   (297 words)

  
 Find a Property - From Colchester To Coombe Hill
Surrey has its fair share of mock-Tudor developments, but Cedar Court on Coombe Hill is the genuine fifteenth-century article.
Major John Hill, Charter Mayor of Malden & Coombe, bought the house in 1930 and in 1939 the property was occupied by the Royal Homeopathic Society.
The homeopaths left in 1946 and the house was then requisitioned by the local authority to serve as emergency housing for the homeless, but high society returned in 1956 when Sir Charles Colston bought the place as a family home and used the kitchens to experiment with the new dishwasher he was trying to perfect.
www.findaproperty.co.uk /story.aspx?storyid=3262   (968 words)

  
 Walbury Hill & Coombe Gibbet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Autumn migration is particulary good, with Wheatear, Whinchat and Redstart regularly recorded in good numbers, and parties of hirundines passing low over the hill or feeding in large flocks over the fields below.
Buzzards are resident, as are Red Kites and Barn Owls nearby, and Ravens have bred in recent years.
Park either at the eastern side of Walbury Hill, or near Combe road down from the Gibbet.
www.ndoc.org.uk /sites/walburyhill.htm   (136 words)

  
 Cotswold HyperGuide - Wotton under Edge
The views from Wotton Hill or Coombe Hill are superb - you can see the towers of the suspension bridges across the Severn Estuary, the Black Mountains in Wales, the Mendip Hills south of Bristol, and follow the southern line of the Edge where it runs towards Bath.
The house, set on the slopes of Coombe Hill, once belonged to the wildly eccentric Moore Adey.
The small village of Coombe, less than one mile from Wotton up the Dyers Brook, is in the foreground.
www.digital-brilliance.com /hyperg/towns/wotton.htm   (1165 words)

  
 Boer War Memorial, Coombe Hill, Wendover   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
A War memorial was erected, and unveiled on Coombe Hill, near Wendover in 1904, in memory of the men from Buckinghamshire who had died in the Boer War.
Standing on a high hill it can be seen from a great distance, and an excellent panoramic view can be seen from it.
But, being built in such a lofty position did cause one problem, when in the late 1930s it was struck by lightning and virtually demolished.
met.open.ac.uk /genuki/big/eng/BKM/Military/Boer_War/Coombe_Hill   (149 words)

  
 (GC171) View from Coombe Hill by Brad Yuan & Steph Adler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Set on the side of Coombe Hill, this cache has spectacular views of the Chilterns countryside.
If you're the driving type, the site is also accessible by car, inside Coombe Hill Park (it has a car park), run by the National Trust.
Love the binoculars in the cache, unfortunately they were of little use as the whole of the hill was clouded in fog today.
www.geocaching.com /seek/cache_details.asp?ID=369   (779 words)

  
 A bit more like it    (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
The Coombe Hill five miler is a small race run in (surprise!) the Coombe Hill region of Kingston.
Mile four then was pretty much entirely uphill, but I got into a good rhythm and really enjoyed pushing hard up the hill, with the sun shining through the trees for a 6:01 split.
This took me to the fast descent which is the first half of the final mile.
homepage.mac.com /rknell/JourKnell/C318684907/E1891548871   (858 words)

  
 Palladian Estates, Surrey UK - Estate Agents for Coombe Hill
Palladian Estates offer a bespoke sales and letting service in the Coombe Hill area of Surrey, UK, one of London's most desirable private estates.
Coombe Hill is situated between Richmond Park and Wimbledon Common in Surrey, UK.
Boasting a clutch of highly sought after schools and numerous recreational facilities including leading golf courses and fitness centres, Coombe Hill is ideal for commuting, with excellent transport links into central London.
www.palladianestates.co.uk /home.php   (188 words)

  
 Property for sale from estate agent - Henry Adams & Partners - Billingshurst
100 Coombe Hill comprises an older style semi-detached house, with brick faced elevations, incorporating replacement double glazed windows and external doors, all under a pitched tiled roof.
1 Coombe Hill comprises a semi-detached house with brick-faced elevations, partially clad with honeysuckle, ivy and a grapevine, incorporating double glazed windows and external doors all under a...
45 Coombe Hill comprises a mid-terraced house with colour-washed elevations incorporating double glazed windows, all under a pitched mansard tiled roof.
www.primelocation.com /estate-agents/properties/a/hybl/uk/y/sr/s   (1047 words)

  
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This 5 mile road race is organised by the Coombe Hill Junior School Association, and takes place on quiet roads within a few minutes of the school.
The private roads have road humps to reduce the speed of cars, but they are not closed to traffic and have no pavements, so you must take care at all times.
Changing Changing rooms and toilets are available at Coombe Hill Junior School, a five-minute walk from the start of the race.
www.windmilers.org.uk /CH5entry03.doc   (584 words)

  
 Community Comment
Moments later I had discovered the Coombe Hill Meadows Nature Reserve and some 3 - 3.5 joyous hours later I continued on up the A38 to a very late, but even more enjoyable supper.
I walked as far as the footbridge at SO 86252680 (OS map reference) and then thoroughly enjoyed a walk back along the various rights of way to the car park at the end of the canal.
The Community Website is for anyone to post sightings, information, and pictures about Coombe Hill Meadows Nature Reserve.
www.gloucestershirewildlifetrust.co.uk /index.php?section=coombehill:community   (428 words)

  
 Coombe Hill Junior School, Kingston Upon Thames, Surrey
Coombe Hill Junior School, Kingston Upon Thames, Surrey
Teach at Coombe Hill Junior School, register today.
Comments: Coombe Hill Junior School, (Local education authority: Kingston Upon Thames) is a Primary School in Kingston Upon Thames, Surrey.
www.axcis.co.uk /22506.html   (170 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Chiltern Hills (British And Irish Physical Geography) - Encyclopedia
Chiltern Hills, range of chalk hills, c.45 mi (70 km) long and 15 to 20 mi (24–32 km) wide, S England, NW of London, extending NE from Goring Gap.
Its highest elevation is Coombe Hill (852 ft/260 m), SE of Aylesbury.
Roman works have been found in the hills.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/C/ChiltrnHls.html   (175 words)

  
 Baron Robert Amadeus Heath
He later became a Baron, and was Consol General of Italy.
In 1851 he purchased the Coombe Hill House, on the junction of Coombe Road and Park Lane, in Croydon, Surrey.
It is now known as the Ruskin House.
members.cox.net /ghgraham/robertheath1818.html   (167 words)

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