Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Motcumbe Hy3 Cerne 14 Ass 1244 1280,1288 GillCt 1292 Ipm 1310

• Motcumb' 1268 Ass

• Motcombe 1502 Ipm

• Mottcombe 1609 LRMB

• Motecumb(e) 1244 Ass 1258 For 1270 ib

• Motecombe 1415 GillCt 1417 Pat 1455 Cl 1650 ParlSurv

• Mocumb' 1268 Ass

• Moucomb 1275 RH

• Mottecumbe 1270 For 1288 Ass

• Mottecombe 1372 Pat 1497 Ipm

• Modecombe 1371 For 1397 WRO

• Medecombe (sic) 1371 For

• Notcombe (sic) Eliz ChancP

Etymology

'Valley where meetings are held', from (ge)mōt and cumb, identical with Motcombe Sx 431, cf. Modbury hundred and Modbury in Swyre par. both infra . This may well have been the meeting-place of the GeldR hundred of Gelingeham , v. under Redlane hundred supra .