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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… church is partly early English, and partly of later date. Coombs COOMBS, a parish, in the union and hundred of Steyning, rape … early English style. On the Downs are traces of tumuli. Coombs-Edge COOMBS-EDGE, a township, in the parish and union …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… business of long standing was perhaps begun by Ebenezer Coombs, who was a clothier at Whitbourne Temple in 1756; 11 … still working: the Fussell dyeworks at Sturford, the Coombs silk factory at Whitbourne Moore, and the woollen … for worship in the earlier 18th century; that of James Coombs in 1700, that of John Meares in 1724, and two in 1738. …