Interesting facts about Coombe
- William Ewart Gladstone, British Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer, spent extended periods as a houseguest of friends in Coombe.
- In 1822 the Admiralty opened a semaphore station in the Warren, which was part of the semaphore line from London to Portsmouth. The station has disappeared, but survived in the name of “Telegraph Cottage”.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower, when Supreme Allied Commander during World War II, lived at “Telegraph Cottage”.
- Three Tudor-era conduits built as a system for supplying water to Hampton Court Palace from springs in Coombe are still visible today.