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.

Cams Head

Early-attested site in the Parish of Kilburn

Historical Forms

  • Cambisheved 1376 Dugdv.348

Etymology

'Head of the ridge' v. heafod and camb , though it is possible that we have here the ON  cognate kámbr rather than the OE  camb .