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.

Doncombe

Early-attested site in the Parish of Colerne

Historical Forms

  • Donenecombe 1363,1382,1406 NewColl
  • Donencombe 1363 ib
  • Doncomb 1471 WMxxxiv
  • Duncombehill 1522 NewColl

Etymology

Doncombe [dʌnkəm] is Donenecombe 1363, 1382, 1406NewColl , Donencombe 1363 ib., Doncomb 1471 WM xxxiv, Duncombehill 1522NewColl . The forms are too late for any certainty to be possible. It may be for earlier Dunnan cumb . 'Dunna 's valley,' v. cumb . The adj. dunn , 'gray,' is also possible. Cf. Middendorffs. v .