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.

Combe Park

Early-attested site in the Parish of Lidlington

Historical Forms

  • boscus voc. Cumbes 1276 Ass
  • le Cumbes 1287 Ass

Etymology

v. cumb . This is one of the few parishes in Beds in which the ground admits of anything which might be called a coombe .

Places in the same Parish

Major Settlement