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.

Maddacombe Cross

Early-attested site in the Parish of Abbotskerswell

Historical Forms

  • on mædercumbe 956 BCS952 13th
  • Madercombe 1561 FF

Etymology

'Valley where madder grows,' v. cumb .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement