Walbury Camp is about 1½ miles up a steep hill near Combe. The summit of Walbury Hill is 974ft above sea level, the highest point on the Berkshire Downs making it popular for hang gliding, with fine views over the Kennet Valley.

Walbury Camp is the largest Iron Age hill fort in Berkshire with a single rampart and ditch a mile in circumference.

There is a plaque near the car park at the top, to the North of the road, which commemorates the 9th Battalion of the Parachute Regiment commanded by Terence B.H.Otway. They trained here for their vital task of the Second World War, knocking out the Nazi's Merville Battery which dominated the Sword Beach in Normandy during the D-Day landings of 6 June 1944 when the Battalion was dropped by parachute to carry out their task.

Combe Gibbet stands 30 feet high on Gallows Down, the ridge joining Walbury Hill to the South of Combe and Inkpen to the North. The Gibbet stands on a notable long barrow, a Stone Age burial mound, where farming communities buried their dead in communal graves.

Local legend says that a George Broomham of Combe fell in love with an attractive widow Dorothy Newman of Inkpen and together they plotted to murder his shrewish wife. Husband and wife went for a walk on the downs one evening and when they reached a dew pond, he pushed her in and she drowned. When he got home he told his mistress, overheard by her children who told the neighbours. The guilty couple were convicted in Newbury and executed. This double gibbet was built to display both bodies after their execution in 1676. The site is very windy and the gibbet blows down frequently so it is now protected with steel on the lower half. ©KMC Aug 1988

This shingled belfry of Combe church was built in the 16th century to house the 3 bells, one of which was cast at the Wokingham Foundry in the 15th century. ©KMC Aug 1988

• The 12th century nave and chancel arch
• 17th century brick porch
• The shingled belfry.

• Combe Gibbet
• Walbury Hill and 2nd World War memorial