Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• (at) Liscombe 843 ASCharters

• (apud) Liscombe 843 BCS739

• Liscome 1086 DB

• Liscoma Exon

• Liscumb' 1200 CurR 1212 Fees

• Liscombe 1310 Inqaqd

• Liscombe Fm 1840 TAMap

• Lyscumb(e) 1288 Ass 1317 MiltC

• Lyscomb(e) 1311 Pat

• Lyssecomb(e) 1372 ChrP 1546 Hutch3

• Luscombe 1351 Pat

• Luyscombe 1535 VE

• (in fundo de) Lussh'combe e15 MiltRoll

• Lyshcombe Grove 1546 Hutch3

• Lescombe 1795 Boswell

• (of) lisebroke 942 ShaftR(S485(1)) 15

• (on) liscbroc 1019 15 ib

• Lussh'groue e15 MiltRoll

Etymology

'Valley where reeds grow', from lisc and cumb , v. Ekwall Studies2 109, Forsberg 141; the f.n. Liscomb 1362 may be identical in origin. The stream here is referred to in the Anglo-Saxon bounds of Cheselbourne as (of ) lisebroke 942 (15) ShaftR (S 485 (1)), (on ) liscbroc 1019 (15) ib (S 955 (1)), from the same first el. with brōc . The Grove in the 1546 form is alternatively Lussh 'groue n.d. (e15) MiltRoll , v. grāf(a) 'grove, copse'. The medieval bounds of Lyscombe are given in n.d. (e15) MiltRoll (m. 3r).