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.

Cumery

Other OS name in the Parish of Bigbury

Historical Forms

  • Comereuwe c.1280 Exon
  • Comberewe 1414 FF

Etymology

is Comereuwe c. 1280 Exon, Comberewe 1414FF . ' Row of houses along the valley , ' v. cumb , ræw . Cf. Cumerew supra 226 .