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coombe
noun
Alternative form of combe
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SOUTH AFRICA: Van Wyk (Eastern Reds); Coombe (Durban Sharks), Ballot (Bay of Plenty), Boshoff (Eastern Reds), Johnson (Workington); Cloete, Alkema (both Barea); Watts, Van Deventer, Booysen (capt; all Dewsbury), Williams (Durban), Fourie (Dewsbury), Alberts (Pretoria).
The coombe is, in effect, a giant cistern collecting rain, of which there is no shortage.
This is a small, deep, roughly circular valley countersunk in the highest chalk, walled in on all sides by rims about a mile across — an enclosed coombe.
2 miles from Duckpool A beautiful walk leads down through a pretty coombe lined with wild garlic and bluebells in spring, with a waterfall at the end.
There are six cedar-wood cabins (each distinctively designed) sleeping four or six within a coombe in the Blackmore Vale, north Dorset, surrounded by beech woods, limestone and the oldest yew trees in Europe.
Denvil Coombe, a transport adviser to the government, has pointed out that within a year of the M25 being widened, traffic nearly doubled between Junctions 9 and 10, wiping out any benefits.
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In a bizarre venture undertaken by an inner core of the English spiritualists, acting under the guidance of the scripts, a new messiah was to be conceived through an extra-marital union between Winifred Coombe-Tennant, a suffragist and British delegate to the League of Nations, and Balfour's brother Gerald, a Tory politician.
Mike Weston, TfL's director of buses, said: "At around 13:00 an out-of-service route 131 double-decker bus, operated by London United, hit a rail bridge on Coombe Road near Norbiton station after taking a wrong turn.
They were NYC Loop, a wraparound booth designed by the architectural firm FXFowle, and NYFi, a slender kiosk designed by Sage & Coombe Architects.
It was designed by Sage & Coombe Architects.
Get off the train at Pangbourne and head upstream three miles via the ancient oaks of Coombe Park.
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