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.

Yarcombe

Major Settlement in the Parish of Yarcombe

Historical Forms

  • Erticoma 1086 DB(Exon)
  • Herticome
  • Ertincumb(e) 1155 France
  • Erticumb(e) 1175(p),1249 Ass
  • Erticum' 1278 Ass
  • Herticum' 1249 Ass
  • Hertecumbe 1267 Ass
  • Hertecombe 1291 Tax
  • Ertecumbe 1277 Exon
  • Artecumbe 1269 Exon
  • Yartecumbe 1278 Ass
  • Yartecombe t.Ed1 QW
  • Yartescombe t.Ed1 QW
  • Yeartecombe 1373 Exon
  • Zertecombe 1330 Ipm
  • Yorkham 1648 FF

Etymology

'The valley of the river Yarty' (supra 17), v. cumb .