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Castle Combe

📍 Wiltshire, England

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About

Castle Combe is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England. The village is around 5 miles (8 km) north-west of Chippenham and 10 miles (16 km) north-east of Bath. At the 2021 census, the parish had a population of 356.

Settlement dates to the Roman period, with a Norman castle built on the hilltop after the Conquest. The village prospered as a wool and cloth trading centre in the 14th-15th centuries, when the market cross was erected. The castle itself is now fragmentary ruins, but the medieval village fabric survives remarkably intact with its 14th-century St Andrew's Church and weavers' cottages.