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.

Columbjohn

Early-attested site in the Parish of Broad Clyst

Historical Forms

  • Colum 1086 DB
  • Culum 1234 Fees396 1244 Ass
  • Colm 1242 Fees789
  • Colump Johan 1316 Ipm
  • Culmejon 1474 Pat

Etymology

The name woulli thus mean 'manor (of John) by the Culm river,' v. supra 4.