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Survey of English Place-Names

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Combeinteignhead

Early-attested site in the Parish of Haccombe with Coombe

Historical Forms

  • Comba 1086 DB
  • Combe, Cumbein Tenhide 1227 Ch
  • Cumbein Tynhide 1259 Exon 1277 Ass
  • Comyngteynhede 1417 Exon
  • Comyng Tynid t.Eliz ChancP
  • Combyntynhedd 1608 FF
  • Combentinheade 1635 Recov

Etymology

'The cumb in the Ten Hide area,' v. supra . For Tenhide , cf. Tinhead (W) in Mawer, PN and History 47.

Places in the same Parish

Major Settlement