| Castle Combe: Originally home
to a Roman Villa and then a castle as well, Castle Combe is the Wiltshire
Mecca of picturesque villages. Walter De Dunstaville (1270) whose
family owned the Castle after the Norman conquest, has his tomb in
the church with effigy showing him in full chain armour with angels
at his head and a dog at his feet, and six small figures in the panels
of the tomb. The Scrope family moved in as Lords of the manor in the
reign of Richard II and stayed for nearly 500 years. |
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