Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Comports Place 1559 LGo

• Comforts Place 1823 G

• Cumpwrthe 1204 FF

• Cumpeworth 1255 Ass

• Cumpewerthe c.1270 HMCVariv

• Compworthe 1294 Ass

• Compworth 1332 SR

• Comporte 1601 SrWills

Etymology

Comfortsplace Fm is Comports Place 1559 LGo, Comforts Place 1823 G, and is to be associated with the family which appears as (de) Cumpwrthe 1204 FF, Cumpeworth 1255Ass , Cumpewerthe c. 1270 HMC Var iv, Compworthe 1294Ass , Compworth 1332 SR, Comporte 1601 SrWills. As there is no place with a name like this in the neighbourhood, or indeed in the county, it may be that we have to do with a genuine place-name, the s being pseudo-manorial. Professor Ekwall notes that with a worþ-name the probabilities are in favour of a personal name as the first element, and suggests an OE  *Cumpa allied to Norw  kump , 'rounded hillock,' ModNorw kump used as a nickname (cf. Torp s. v. kump ). cump is on record, though somewhat doubtfully, from Lincolnshire, as a dialect word for a ball. It may there be of Scandinavian origin.