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.

Spreacombe

Early-attested site in the Parish of Morthoe

Historical Forms

Esprecoma 1086 DB(Exon)

Sprecome

Sprecumb' 1242 Fees774

Spreycomb 1303 FA

Spraycombe 1380 Exon

Sprycombe 1385 Exon

Etymology

'Brushwood valley,' cf. Sprytown infra 208.

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement

Morthoe