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Lyscombe Bottom, Fm & Hill

Early-attested site in the Parish of Cheselbourne

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).