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.

Little Comfort

Early-attested site in the Parish of West Down

Etymology

Names such as this and Little Joy, infra 474, were probably given either to a particularly barren and unproductive piece of land or possibly in some cases to a dilapidated or ruined dwelling. Cf. also Little Regarded in Kenwyn (Co), so marked in Martyn's map (1748).