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Survey of English Place-Names

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Malacombe Bottom

Early-attested site in the Parish of Tollard Royal

Historical Forms

  • mapuldor cumb, mapeldere cumb 955 BCS917,970 14th

Etymology

Malacombe Bottom is mapuldor cumb , mapeldere cumb 955 (14th) BCS 917, 970. 'Maple-tree valley,' v. cumb and cf. Mappledore Hill supra 179.

Places in the same Parish