Combeacre (The Moving Finger)

In the novel The Moving Finger, Combeacre is a village about 7 miles from Lymstock. Colonel Appleton, who makes an incidental appearance near the beginning of the story, lives there. The house of the Symmingtons stood on the road from Lymstock to Combeacre. Besides the road, there is also a field path from Lymstock to Combeacre. Elsie Holland took that Symmington boys along the field path because they wanted to go fishing.