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.

Seccombe

Other OS name in the Parish of Blackawton

Historical Forms

  • Secumb 1238 FF

Etymology

is Secumb 1238 FF . ' Secca 's valley , ' v. cumb , and cf. Seccombe supra 183 .