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.

Woolcombe Fm, Woolcombe Folly, Hr Woolcombe Dairy & Lr Woolcombe Dairy

Other OS name in the Parish of Melbury Bubb

Etymology

( cf. Woolcomb Ho 1811 OS ) ( Folly Plant .1839TA ) , all named from Woolcombe supra , v. folly .