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.

Holcombe

Early-attested site in the Parish of East and West Dawlish

Historical Forms

(æt) holacumba 1050–73 Earle

Holacumbe 1069 OSFacsii,Exeterxvi

Holcomma 1086 DB

Etymology

'Hollow valley,' v. holh , cumb .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement

Dawlish