Castle Combe
Honey-stone medieval wool village with a Grade I church that houses a working faceless clock.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Castle Combe, a wool village near Bath, follows George Poulett Scrope, a Regency geologist who stood beside Vesuvius in eighteen twenty-two and went on to take on the leading rock theory of his age. It traces how a volcano scientist came to settle in a quiet Wiltshire valley, and what he did for its crumbling parish church. Best heard inside the church of Saint Andrew, near the base of the tower.
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