Thorncombe
Major Settlement in the Parish of Thorncombe
Historical Forms
- Tornecoma 1086 DB
- Tornecumb(a) c.1140 CampbCh 1160–2 Ch 1336 Abbr John
- Thorn(e)cumba John AddCh 13 Forde 15
- Thorn(e)cumbe 1228,1236 FF 1244 Forde 15 Ipm 1314 LodersC 14
- Thorn(e)combe 1322 HarlCh 1329 Ipm 1399 Cl
- Turnecumb' 1234 Cl
- Thor(e)cumb(e) (sic) 1234 Pat 1244 FF
- Thernescombe (sic) 1401 Cl
Etymology
'Valley where thorn-trees grow', v. þorn (gen.pl. þorna ), cumb , cf. Thorncombe 273 which has the same origin. Thorncombe Thorn at a cross-roads just SW of the village apparently commemorates a notable thorn-tree.
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
Other OS name
- Alford's Goil Coppice
- Ashgrove
- Bateham's Ctg, Bateham's Dairy & Batehams Pit
- Baymore Coppice
- Beer Acre
- Bitterstall Orchd
- Black Lawns Coppice
- Black North Plant.
- Blackwater Coppice
- Blind Lane
- Bonny Green
- Broad Bridge, Broadbridge Fm
- Broom, Broom Bridge
- Cakehorn Coppice
- Carolina
- Chard St.
- Chitmoor
- Cogan's Fm
- Compton's Coppice
- Coppice Ho
- Damas Lawn Bridge
- Dungeon Close
- Elmore Fm
- Ferndale
- Forde Abbey Fm, Forde Bridge, Forde Grange
- Fore St.
- Framing Ctg & Framing Cross
- Game Leaze Coppice
- Glastonbury Pit
- Glebe Diary Fm
- Glydes's Pit
- Golden Fleece P.H.
- Golden Lion P.H.
- Goodsmore Coppice
- Gough's Barton
- Great Pond
- Greenhill
- Green Lane
- (Hr) Gribb
- Grighay Coppice & Grighay Plant.
- Grove Coppice
- Guttering Close Coppice
- Halscombe
- Headstock Cross & Headstock Rd
- Herridge Coppice & Herridge Fm
- Hewood, Hewood Bottom (Coppice), Hr Hewood Fm & Lr Hewood Fm, Hewood Fm, Hewood Plant.
- Hodge Ditch
- Holditch (Court) Lane, Hr Holditch Fm & Lr Holditch Fm
- Hollow Grove
- Holmbush
- Holway
- Home Fm
- Horseshoe Clump & Horseshoe Rd
- James Lears
- Jubilee Hall
- Knacker's Hill Lane, Knacker's Hole
- Laver's Lane
- Laymore
- Little Park
- Little Wood
- Manor Fm
- Martins Hill
- Maudlin, Maudlin Cross & Maudlin Lane
- Mermaid Pond
- Middle Coppice
- Mill
- New Ho
- New Ho
- Oxenleaze Coppice
- Park Coppice
- Park Lane
- Partway, Partway Coppice & Partway Lane
- Payne's Down (Ctgs)
- Pince's Knapp
- Pitmore Coppice
- Plain Coppice
- Queentree Coppice
- The Rookery
- Hr Rough Pits & Lr Rough Pits
- Roundabout Plant.
- Royal Oak P.H.
- Sadborow Coppice, Sadborow Lane, Sadborow Mill, Sadborow Plant. & Sadborow Pound
- St Mary's Church
- Saddle St.
- School Ho (Fm)
- Seven Acre Plant.
- Shearing Cross
- Shedbush Coppice
- Hr Shedrick & Lr Shedrick, Shedrick Bridge & Shedrick Hill
- Sheepspine Lane
- Spearhay Lane
- Springmoor Coppice
- Squirrel Inn
- Stall Coppice
- Stonelake (Brook), thorncombe Fm
- Thorncombe Thorn
- The Three Clumps
- Tinnys Close
- Tower
- Tuck Mill, tuckmill Coppice
- turnpike Ctg
- Vicarage
- Walks Plant.
- The Warren
- West Lears Fm
- Westmills Plant.
- Wetwood Coppice
- Wheel House Ctgs, Wheel House Lane & Wheel House Plant.
- Winyards Hill Coppice
- Wittey's Lane
- Wood Coppice & Wood Ctg
- Workhouse Fm
- Yawling's Fm
- Yewtree Fm
- Yonder Coppice
- Yonder Hill Creamery