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.

Tattiscombe

Early-attested site in the Parish of Trentishoe

Historical Forms

  • Totescoma 1086 DB
  • Totescumba 1181 P
  • Tottescumbe 1310 Exon
  • Tottescomb 1330 SR 1346 FA
  • Tatchcomb 1630 Westcote

Etymology

'Tott 's valley,' v. cumb . This pers. name is not recorded but would be the strong form of the well-evidenced Totta . For the 17th cent. spelling, cf. Titchberry infra 76.

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Major Settlement