Combeinteignhead
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Combeinteignhead or Combe-in-Teignhead is a village in the civil parish of Haccombe with Combe, in the Teignbridge district, in south Devon, England. It lies between Newton Abbot and Shaldon, about half a mile (1 km) inland from the estuary of the River Teign.
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- Locality
- Teignbridge
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
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Combeinteignhead or Combe-in-Teignhead is a village in the civil parish of Haccombe with Combe, in the Teignbridge district, in south Devon, England. It lies between Newton Abbot and Shaldon, about half a mile (1 km) inland from the estuary of the River Teign.
Despite this closeness to the River Teign, the name Combeinteignhead is not derived from it: in the Domesday Book the district contained thirteen manors which totalled an area of ten hides and the whole area was known as the "Ten Hide". This was later corrupted to Teignhead through the influence of the river name. It is one of the longest place names in England, with 16 letters. The name of the nearby village of Stokeinteignhead has a similar derivation.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Combeinteignhead” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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