Motcombe
Major Settlement in the Parish of Motcombe
Historical Forms
- Motcumbe Hy3 Cerne 14 Ass 1244 1280,1288 GillCt 1292 Ipm 1310
- Motcumb' 1268 Ass
- Motcombe 1502 Ipm
- Mottcombe 1609 LRMB
- Motecumb(e) 1244 Ass 1258 For 1270 ib
- Motecombe 1415 GillCt 1417 Pat 1455 Cl 1650 ParlSurv
- Mocumb' 1268 Ass
- Moucomb 1275 RH
- Mottecumbe 1270 For 1288 Ass
- Mottecombe 1372 Pat 1497 Ipm
- Modecombe 1371 For 1397 WRO
- Medecombe (sic) 1371 For
- Notcombe (sic) Eliz ChancP
Etymology
'Valley where meetings are held', from (ge)mōt and cumb, identical with Motcombe Sx 431, cf. Modbury hundred and Modbury in Swyre par. both infra . This may well have been the meeting-place of the GeldR hundred of Gelingeham , v. under Redlane hundred supra .
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
Other OS name
- Brickells Cliff, Brickells Pond Fm
- Bridewell (Lane)
- The Butts
- The Cliff, Cliff Ctg
- The Corner, Corner Fm
- Cowherd Shute Fm
- Culverhouse Fm
- Donedge Lodge Fm
- (Lr) Duncliffe Fm
- Knap, Knapp
- Palemead Coppice
- Pound
- Turnpike Wd
- Allotment Fm, Allotment Plant.
- Eight Acre Plant
- Lady's Copse
- Payne's Place
- Pug's Hole
- Well Ho
- Bittles Green (Fm)
- Fishy Mead Copse
- Forest Fm
- Frog Lane (Fm)
- The Grange
- Grant's Copse
- Guest's Fm
- Haines Fm
- Hawker's Hill (Plant.)
- Hunt's Fm
- The Kennels
- Larkinglass Fm
- Latchmore Pond
- Limbrick
- Long Cross
- Manor Fm
- Motcombe Ho (Plants.)
- MotCombe Park
- Nettlebed
- New Lane
- North End (Fm)
- The Nursery
- Oates Plant.
- Pensbury Ctgs, Pensbury Ho, Pensbury Plant.
- The Plantation
- Pottle's Hill Plant.
- Quoits Copse
- Red House Fm
- Royal Oak Inn
- Ryal's Plant.
- St Mary's Church
- Sherborne Causeway
- Shorts Green Fm
- Thane's Fm
- White House Fm
- Withies Fm
- Woodwater Fm
- Woolcott's Fm
- Yew Tree Ctg