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.
Survey of English place-names
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Combe Walter
Combe Walter
Early-attested site in the Parish of Abbotsham
Historical Forms
Comewater
1561
Deed
Walter de Combe
1333
SR
Etymology
For the form
water
cf. Ashwater
infra
127.
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
Cornborough
Pusehill
Tealta
Other OS name
Bowood
Buckleigh
Claycott
Clifton
Keene
Langdon
Orchard
Rixlade
Shamland
Spurland
Major Settlement
Abbotsham