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Coombe Hill is a hill in The Chilterns, located next to the hamlet of Dunsmore, Buckinghamshire, England, near the town of Wendover, and overlooking Aylesbury Vale. It is not to be confused with another Coombe Hill on the flank of Haddington Hill, some four kilometres to the north-east.

The majority of the hill is owned by the National Trust; near the summit is a monument, erected in 1904, in memory of the men from Buckinghamshire who died during the Second Boer War. The original gold plaque and decorations were stolen in the 1980s and were replaced with a stone plaque and iron flag with the remainder of the decoration being created from bronze. The monument was badly damaged by a lightning strike in the early 1990s and spent several months in repair. It has now been equipped with conductors to prevent the mishap happening again. The monument and a few square metres of surrounding land is owned by English Heritage.