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.

Coombeswood and The Coombes

Early-attested site in the Parish of Halesowen

Historical Forms

  • Close of Cumbes Hy3 LyttCh
  • boscus de Combes 1271 Ct

Etymology

'Valleys,' v. cumb .