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n. (plural of coombe English)
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Coombes is a hamlet and civil parish in the Adur District of West Sussex, England. The village is in the Adur Valley northwest of Shoreham-by-Sea.
Coombes Church is an 11th-century Church of England parish church that has lost its dedication. It has some of the most important medieval wall paintings in England, which were painted . There is a single church bell that weighs about and was probably cast in Normandy. It is one of the oldest bells in Sussex, dated to . The church is roofed with Horsham Stone slabs.
The civil parish has an area of and has a parish meeting rather than a parish council. The 2001 Census recorded a population of 51 people living in 22 households of whom 23 were economically active.
Church Farm is next to the parish church and Applesham Farm is about to the south.
Coombes is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Charly Coombes (born 1980), American-born, English multi-instrumentalist and vocalist
- Gaz Coombes (born 1976), English musician and singer-songwriter ( Supergrass)
- Geoff Coombes (1919–2002), English-born, US international footballer ( soccer)
- Gregg Coombes (born 1988), Welsh footballer
- James Coombes (disambiguation)
- Leah Coombes (born 1994), British actress
- Peet Coombes (1952–1997), British musician, guitarist and vocalist
- Richard Coombes (1858–1935), English-born journalist and 'father' of amateur athletics in Australia
- Rob Coombes (born 1972), English musician ( Supergrass)
- Robert Coombes (1808–1860), English oarsman and world champion sculler
- Rod Coombes (born 1946), English singer-songwriter and musician
- William Henry Coombes (1767–1850), English Catholic priest, theologian and writer
Usage examples of "coombes".
His name was Mr Coombes and I have a picture in my mind of a giant of a man with a face like a ham and a mass of rusty-coloured hair that sprouted in a tangle all over the top of his head.
It is possible that Mr Coombes was a perfectly normal being, but in my memory he was a giant, a tweed-suited giant who always wore a black gown over his tweeds and a waistcoat under his jacket.
Suddenly it swung open and through it, like the angel of death, strode Mr Coombes, huge and bulky in his tweed suit and black gown, and beside him, believe it or not, right beside him trotted the tiny figure of Mrs Pratchett herself!
Mr Coombes and Mrs Pratchett as they came walking down the line towards us.
Her voice trailed away as Mr Coombes led her quickly through the door into the school building.
Mr Coombes was standing in the middle of it, dominating everything, a giant of a man if ever there was one, and in his hands he held a long yellow cane which curved round the top like a walking stick.
She kept up her screeching all the way through, exhorting Mr Coombes to greater and still greater efforts, and the awful thing was that he seemed to be responding to her cries.
Whether or not the wily Mr Coombes had chalked the cane beforehand and had thus made an aiming mark on my grey flannel shorts after the first stroke, I do not know.
She was walking very quickly, with her head held high and her body erect, and by the look of things I figured that Mr Coombes was in for a hard time.
Sandra Glenn chuckled over the mental image of a grown Leslie Coombes splashing the bath water with his rubber duckie while a gray-haired matron scrubbed him down with soap and a wash cloth.