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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.