Must-SeeBath
England
About 9.3 miles away
Roman baths, Georgian crescents and Jane Austen, in golden stone.
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Castle Combe
A tiny wooded-valley village where no new house has been built in the center since about 1600.
- Open
- Always
- Price
- Free; paid parking above the village
- Time Needed
- 1 hour
- Address
- The Street, Castle CombeDirections
- Getting There
- About 30 minutes by car from Bath; visitors park at the top of the village and walk down.
Why Go
Stone cottages step down the single street past the medieval market cross to the bridge over the By Brook, a view often called the prettiest in England and used by many films. The church has one of the oldest working clocks in the country.
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