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.

Mollycombe

Early-attested site in the Parish of Thurlestone

Historical Forms

Smalacombe 1619 Recov

Etymology

'Narrow valley,' v. smæl , cumb . If this is correct (v. supra 264) it is the smalan cumb , oð smalan cumb of BCS 451.

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Major Settlement

Thurlestone