- Holcombe Rogus
Holcombe Rogus is a village and
civil parish in the English county ofDevon .The manor house is described as "perhaps the finest Tudor house in Devon". The last element of the village's name – often mistranscribed as Regis – is that of the owner of the manor at the time of the
Domesday book . A coombe (Welsh "cwm") - the second element - is a scoop in the side of a hill. In ancient times this often represented a good place to put housing.By 1812, progress was being made, with the construction of
Grand Western Canal , but it was hampered by rock cuttings at Holcombe Rogus, from which springs of water gushed, and there was a need to line some sections with puddle clay to prevent leakage. Lime kilns were constructed to provide the materials, which can still be seen beside the canal, [cite web | title=Waytown Limekilns | work=Images of England | url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/search/details.aspx?id=352085 | accessdate=2007-12-06] close to the Waytown Tunnel. [cite web | title=Waytown Tunnel | work=Images of England | url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/search/details.aspx?id=95949 | accessdate=2007-12-06]References
External links
* [http://www.devon.gov.uk/etched?url=etched/ixbin/hixclient.exe&_IXP_=1&_IXR=110284 Details]
* [http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/DEV/HolcombeRogus/ GENUKI(tm) page]
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