Snorscomb
Early-attested site in the Parish of Everdon
Historical Forms
- Snocescumb 944 BCS792
- Snochescumbe 1086 DB
- Snokescombe 12th Survey 1293 ADiii
- Snoxcumbe 1240 FF
- Snoxecumbe 1261 Ass
- Snoteskumbe 1257 FF
- Snotescumb(e) 1275 Ipm 1293–1300 Ipm
- Snotescomb 1428 FA
- Snotecombe 1325 Cl
- Snoscoumbe 1293–1300 Ipm
- Snoscomb(e) 1426 ADv 1577 Recov 1823 B
- Snoscom 1730 Poll
- Snorscomb 1764 Recov
Etymology
As the land is much broken here, and there are one or two prominent projections into the valley, we may have a compound of OE *snoc , 'point, projection,' and cumb, hence 'valley forming part of some such projection,' though such a genitival compound seems very unlikely. For the word v. snook sb. 1 (NED) and PN BedsHu 296. Snoxhall in Cranleigh (Sr), Snokeshull (e )1279, 1288Ass , 1370 AD iii, would seem to contain the same element, but there is no particularly prominent projection there; cf. also Snokeshacche (1448Rental ) in Dorking (Sr). There is also a field called Snoxford in Blakesley (Nth), for which we have no early forms. The persistence of forms with genitival s in all these names favours the likelihood of a pers. name *Snoc , the strong form of the recorded Snocca .