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.

Iacomb 's Cl

Field in the Parish of Illston on the Hill

Historical Forms

  • 1848 TA

Etymology

Iacomb's Cl (with the surn. Iacomb, poss. a local form with prosthetic j, of the p.n. Acomb (such as Acomb, YW 4 228); Professor R. Coates wonders if it is rather a version of Jacob)