Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Secumbe 13,c.1277 AD

• Secumbe in Waleye 1301 Chamb

• Secoumbe in Waleye 1302 Chamb

• Secoumbe 1356 MinAcct

• Secom 1303 Chamb 1347 ChFor 1354 BPR 1438 Orm2 1523 ChRR 1571 Orm2 1537

• Secom in Walesee 1441 ib

• Secome 1304 Chamb 1459,1523(1571) ChRR 1534–47 Dugd

• Secome in Walesee 1460 ChRR

• Secum in Waleye 1304,1306 Chamb

• Secum in Wallesie 1460 Orm2

• Secum 1354 17 Eyre 1356 BPR 1361 ChFor 1385 Plea 1425,1462,1516 ChRR 1533 Orm2 1558,1574,1637 Sheaf 1639

• Seacum 1421,1455 ChRR 1468 MinAcct 1483 Orm2 1659,1663 Sheaf

• Seacum in Walley 1421 Orm2

• Seacum in Walesee 1439 ChRR

• Seacum in Waley 1483 ib

• Seacom 1505 ChRR

• Seacoum 1515 MinAcct

• Seykym 1538 Orm2

• Secam 1563 Sheaf 17

• Seycom 1558 Pat

• Seycon 1560 Sheaf

• Seacombe 1659 Sheaf 1724 NotCestr

• Higher Seacombe 1831 Bry

• Seacomb 1673 Sheaf

• Sacom c.1724 Sheaf

Etymology

'Valley by the sea', v. sǣ , cumb . The cumb was probably the dale at Oakdale infra .