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.

Whitcombe

Early-attested site in the Parish of Kenn

Historical Forms

Wethecumb 1249 Ass

Wedecumbe 1281 Ass

Whitcomb 1376 IpmR

Etymology

'Wheat-valley,' v. hwæte , cumb .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement

Kenn