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.

Tumholme

Other OS name in the Parish of Owston

Historical Forms

  • Tumbholm(e) 1371 YDvi 1379 PT

Etymology

, Tumbholm (e )1371 YD vi, 1379 PT (p) , ' Tumbi's water-meadow ' , v. holmr ; on the pers. n. Tumbi ( DB ) , probably from an ODan  Tumbi , v. Feilitzen 388 .