Combe Martin in Devon – Bolshie Brummies a plenty

Living in Combe Martin, Devon

Combe Martin is a Devonshire bumpkin village and small “seaside resort” (apparently), about 4 miles east of Ilfracombe in North Devon. There are very few Devonians left in this **** town, where the average age is 0-18 or over 60; anyone else who wants a normal life ‘gets the hell out of Dodge’, and lets […]

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Combe Martin: One Foot in the Grave, set in Devon’s own Royston Vasey

Living in Combe Martin, Devon

Combe Martin?  A civil parish and former manor on the North Devon coast about 4 miles east of Ilfracombe.  You can’t really mistake this place, and you mustn’t.  Think Withnail and I and One Foot in the Grave, set in Devon’s own Royston Vasey. “Out of the World and into Combe Martin” as its old […]

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