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.

Comble

Early-attested site in the Parish of Bromsgrove

Historical Forms

  • Comble 1086 DB
  • Comeley 1300 Nash 18th LibPens 1380

Etymology

This may be a compound of cumb and leah , but as the site is lost we cannot be sure. There is another reference to the combe in kumbewalle in Chadwich (Bodl 76) and to Comble in Comeleford , a pers. name in Cofton in 1275 (SR).