Castle Combe is a quintessentially English village often named as the ‘prettiest village in England.’ The village sits in the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in north west Wiltshire.
Castle Combe has featured regularly as a film location, most recently in The Wolf Man, Stardust and Stephen Spielberg’s War Horse. It was also used in the original Dr Doolittle film.
The village has a rich history and the houses are made up of the honey coloured Cotswold stone, typical for a village of this area.Within Castle Combe you’ll find a Market Cross and St Andrew’s Church which dates from the 13th century. The church houses a faceless clock which is reputed to be one of the oldest working clocks in the country. You’ll also find a couple of pubs and a luxury hotel with a golf course within the village.
Stroll along the village to the bridge and you’ll not only enjoy the views but may be able to purchase homemade cakes, sweets or bunches of flowers from outside the locals’ houses. Stop at the bottom of the village by the bridge and enjoy a great photographic moment too!
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Castle Combe
20 Comments CherryPie on Dec 3rd 2020
If I saw Castle Combe on a tv programme or cinema film, I would assume some clever set designer fitted it all up as a backdrop for the storyline. The Cotswold stone houses and the gardens are perfect.
Castle Combe is one of those special places where you can step back in time
Pleased you found and took such lovely pictures of the place. This is often on one of my local walks
I would love to spend more time there and go for a walk around the area.
It was one of the places on my list to stay for my recent special birthday.
The quintessence of a small English village Gorgeous, would be like to live in a fairy tale.
Yes
Gorgeous. Its quite a few years since we visited but it is delightful and so pretty.
These English villages are amaxzing. It is like stepping back in time
Quite near my son, in Cheltenham, so will note down for a visit some day.
I think you would love the village
Ah, the Cotswolds. Nice to see roads I walked.
I hope to go back and explore those roads in more detail
You have caught it at a time when there are few visitors. I enjoy walking here in the winter – there are such lovely walks around there that you would thoroughly enjoy, Cherie
I was perhaps lucky that most tourists avoided the town in favour of more popular towns.
It was very foggy when I was there.
Perfect setting for a mystery story.
Have you started to write the story yet?
I am attracted both to those lovely gardens and those old stones.
It is a quaint oldy worldy place full of charm
Lovely place, hope you enjoyed it. I’ve only visited it once maybe 10 – 15 years ago and was reminded that a Poirot episode (Murder of Roger Ackroyd) was filmed here when sitting in the pub at the top of the street … photos on the wall. It’s then great to re-visit DVD’s in the loft for that purpose.
PS how difficult was it for you to transfer your blog to Wordpress and are you happier with it ?
I like the Wordpress platform, I find it easier to use than Blogger. This blog is selfhosted but I also have a Wordpress hosted blog.
I was able to migrate my old blog from Blogger to Wordpress. I wasn’t able to transfer that data to my self hosted site so I have links back to to where the older posts are hosted.
http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2009/04/30/welcome/
My original posts are also still on Blogspot.
https://cheriesplaceblog.blogspot.com/