Combs, Derbyshire

Village in Derbyshire, England

Human settlement in England

Chapel-en-le-Frith

District

High Peak

Shire county

Derbyshire

Region

East Midlands

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High Peak

List of places: UK; England; Derbyshire

53°18′18″N 1°56′13″W / 53.3051°N 1.937°W / 53.3051; -1.937

Combs is a small village in Derbyshire, England, in the civil parish of Chapel-en-le-Frith and the Peak District National Park.

The village is bounded to the east, west and south by gritstone edges and moorland, the highest of which is Black Edge (507 m (1,663 ft)). To the north the embankment of the Buxton to Stockport railway separates it from Combs Reservoir. To the east is Castle Naze, a prehistoric settlement site.

The village has a pub, the Beehive Inn,^[1] and infant school.^[2]^[3]

Combs resident Herbert Frood developed a vehicle brake pad and in 1897 founded the company Ferodo. The village was also home to journalists and authors Crichton Porteous and Peggy Bellhouse.

Old Brook House and its barn, close to the Beehive public house, is a listed building.^[4]^[5] Parts of it dates from the 17th and 18th centuries, as does Marsh Hall closer to Chapel-en-le-frith.^[6]

References

^ "Home page". The Beehive Inn. Retrieved 24 January 2021.
^ "Combs Infant School". Ofsted. Retrieved 4 October 2012.
^ School Official Website Archived 2004-05-20 at archive.today
^ Historic England. "Old Brook House (Grade II) (1263667)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 29 March 2019.
^ Historic England. "Barn at Brook House Farm (Grade II) (1140153)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 29 March 2019.
^ Historic England. "Marsh Hall and Barn (Grade II) (1088025)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 18 March 2013.