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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Ashcombe
Major Settlement in the Parish of Ashcombe
Historical Forms
Aissecoma
1086
DB
Aiscumb(e)
1200
Seld3
1259
Exon
Ascumbe
1200
Cur
Ashcombe
1291
Tax
Etymology
v.
æsc
,
cumb
.
Places in the same Parish
Other OS name
Woodoffice Copse
Charlwood Fm
Grammarcombe
Langdon Barton
Woodhouse Fm