[1] Castle Combe is within the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and is a popular tourist attraction.

[5] The village is in two parts: one is in the narrow valley of By Brook, while Upper Castle Combe is on higher land to the east, on the B4039 road connecting Chippenham and Chipping Sodbury.

[11] The Market Cross, a scheduled monument, reflects "the significance of the cloth industry in this area".

[13] Small stone steps near the cross were for horse riders to mount and dismount, and close by are the remains of the buttercross, built in the late 19th century from old masonry.

Scrope promoted the woollen industry, supplying his own troops and others for Henry V's war in France.

[10] At some time in the late 1700s, the level of the Bybrook River fell, so it could no longer be used to power mills.

[20] During the Second World War, the RAF Castle Combe airfield was built east of the village, with runways, hangars and a control tower.

[30] Its frequently rainy summer climate frustrated production, as did attempted sabotage – including by British Army officer (and future explorer) Sir Ranulph Fiennes - because of residents' irritation at the producers' modifications of the area for shooting.

[31][32] Other productions include "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd", an episode of Agatha Christie's Poirot, The Shell Seekers (1989) and the films Stardust[33] and The Wolfman.

[34] Raymond Austin set the action of his book Find me a Spy, Catch me a Traitor in the village and at the Manor.

The house of Alice Cartalet in the manga and anime series Kiniro Mosaic was based on Fosse Farmhouse, a guesthouse near Castle Combe.

[35] The village was a filming location for the fantasy adventure movie Mariah Mundi and the Midas Box in 2012, and later for a series of Downton Abbey.

[36] Castle Combe has a car park at the top of the hill, and toilet facilities over the bridge at the bottom of the village.

After 18 months, the club left the premises, and the house was shortly thereafter sold to Bobbie Allen, an amateur hotelier, and her husband.