Kimmer?
A guess, but as it's a valley on the Wessex coast, could it be like all the Cwm, Cwym or Coombe places we have in Wales, Devon etc?
Boreades wrote:Kimmer?
A guess, but as it's a valley on the Wessex coast, could it be like all the Cwm, Cwym or Coombe places we have in Wales, Devon etc?
In French "combe" is a feminine noun derived from the Celtic noun cumba meaning valley.
During the Middle Ages, the valley was one of the cradles of the Cevennes coal industry, but it really was not until around 1780 on the initiative of Pierre-François Tubeuf that industrial mining techniques were used. Shafts were sunk, and the galleries were supported with wooden pit-props.
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