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.

Rabscott

Early-attested site in the Parish of North Molton

Historical Forms

  • Roberdescote 1238,1244 Ass 1330 SR
  • Rapscott 1592 SR

Etymology

'Robert 's cot(e),' a post-Conquest p.n.Cf. Rapson supra 119. A Rotberd is already found in the county c. 1100 (Earle 257).