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.

Coombs

Early-attested site in the Parish of Thornborough

Historical Forms

  • Albonescumbes 1244 Thornbiii c.1260 ib

Etymology

'Alban's valleys' v. cumb . The Alban is probably derived from the Nigel de Aula S. Albani (i.e. of St Alban's Hall) who is mentioned more than once in the Thornborough Deeds (cf. no. 5) as possessing lands there. He must have belonged to St Alban's Hall in Oxford which was certainly in existence in 1305 and possibly earlier (v. Ingram, Memorials of Oxford , 1837).

Places in the same Parish

Major Settlement