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.

Cooms

Early-attested site in the Parish of Scalby

Historical Forms

Cumbis 1252 Pat

Cumbes 1252 NRS

Etymology

'The valleys' v. cumb .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Major Settlement