Tatcombe Wd
Early-attested site in the Parish of Cerne Abbas
Historical Forms
- Tot(e)cumb(e) 1210 P 1211 P 1212 P
- parcel of land…called Totcomb' 1575 Hutch3
- 'a narrow declining vale called Totcomb' 1774 Hutch1 1815 Hutch3
Etymology
Tatcombe Wd (SY 675995), Tot (e )cumb (e )1210 P, 1211 P, 1212 P, 'parcel of land …called Totcomb '1575 Hutch3, 'a narrow declining vale called Totcomb '1774 Hutch1, 1815 Hutch3, 'Tot(t)a's valley', from the OE pers.n. Tot (t )a (Redin 70) and cumb . It gives name to the hundred of Totcombe supra which had its meeting place here. The small wood lies in the middle of the distinctive valley 1 mile SE of Cerne Abbas village now called Bramble Bottom infra , cf. also comon of pasture upon Totcombe Hill 1617Add .
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
Other OS name
- Abbey Fm
- Abbey Ho
- Alton Road Ctgs
- Barnwells
- Barton Fm & Barton Lodge, Lr Barton Fm (Kelly)
- Black Hill (Barn), Blackhill Fm (Kelly)
- Blackwater(lost)
- Bramble Bottom (Plant)
- Brick Kiln Drove
- Brook Ctg
- Buck Hill
- Cerne Ewe-Leaze
- Cerne Park
- Chescombe Drove
- Cross
- Dickley Hill
- Eastfield Drove
- Francombe Bottom & Francombe Fm
- The Gables
- Gate House
- Giant Head Fm
- Giant Hill
- Glove Premises
- Great Wd
- Green Hill
- Hail Wd
- Hare Coppice
- Hayesend Drove
- Higher Hill Bottom
- Hill Plant.
- Holly Bank Fm
- Incombe Plant.
- Kettle Bridge
- Large Bar Barn & Large Bar Hill
- Little Wd
- The Lodge
- The Manse
- Mill
- Mill Race
- New Barn
- North Eweleaze
- Oakham Close
- The Old Bell
- Oxencombe Bottom
- Pain's Bridge(lost)
- Park Mead Bottom
- Piddle Lane & Piddle Wd
- Pound Bottom & Pound Ho, Pound Fm (Kelly)
- Robin Wood
- Rowdenfoot Coppice, Rowden Hill
- St Austin's Well
- St Catherine's Chapel
- St Catherine's Fm
- St Mary's Church
- Smacam Down
- Southcombe Plant.
- South Hanging
- Three Hedges
- Tithe Barn
- Tucking Mill
- Vicarage
- Weam Common Hill, Weam Coppice
- Well Coppice
- West Hanging
- Yelcombe Bottom & Yelcombe Drove