English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Spreacombe

Early-attested site in the Parish of Morthoe

Historical Forms

  • Esprecoma 1086 DB(Exon)
  • Sprecome
  • Sprecumb' 1242 Fees774
  • Spreycomb 1303 FA
  • Spraycombe 1380 Exon
  • Sprycombe 1385 Exon

Etymology

'Brushwood valley,' cf. Sprytown infra 208.

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