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.

Mount Caburn

Early-attested site in the Parish of Glynde

Historical Forms

  • Mount Carbone 1770 ParReg

Etymology

Mount Caburn [kɔˑbəˑn, kɑˑbəˑn] is Mount Carbone 1770 ParReg, Mt Caburn in Gibson's Camden (1784). It is much to be regretted that we have no really early forms for this name.

Places in the same Parish