Coombs

Coombs or Coombes was a cluster of cottages on the ridge above Loosley Hill Road, now disappeared.

Coombs on the horizon behind The Sprat

The Forgotten Hamlet of Coombs by Rita Probert.

Introduction

Many people use the footpath via Gomme's Forge ornamental iron stile at the junction of Little Lane, Foundry Lane and Lower Road in Loosley Row to cross the hillside know locally as the Grubbin. They exercise their dogs and stop to admire the beautiful views of Lodge Hill, Wain Hill and beyond to the Vale of Aylesbury.

After a heavy snowfall the area is particularly popular with children and adults alike for sledging down the hillside. The area once again resounding with voices that, in fact, echo the past.

New residents are perhaps unaware that at the top of the hill and to the left of the footpath, stile and beyond, now farmland, there once stood a small hamlet called Coombs. This consisted of a farm and three or four cottages housing over the years in its heyday an average of twenty men, women and children. By 1911, however, the number had drastically reduced to seven residents and signified the eventual decline of the hamlet.

Coombs
Construction Era	1700-1822, 1823 Enclosures Record
Type of Property	Cottage
Use of Property	Residential
Locations	Loosley Row, Coombes