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.

Cullompton

Major Settlement in the Parish of Cullompton

Historical Forms

  • (æt) Columtune 880–5 BCS553 c.1000
  • (æt) Culumtune a.1097 Earle
  • Culimtone 1159 RBE
  • Colump 1086 DB(Exon)
  • Colum
  • Culmeton 1257 Ch
  • Culumt(on) 1212 Fees96
  • Columton 1230 Cl
  • Columpton(e) 1263 Ipm 1291 Tax
  • Culmpton 1321 Pat
  • Columptonal. Colehampton, Columbton, Collupton vulg. Culliton 1675 Ogilby

Etymology

Farm on the Culm river (supra 4),' v. tun .