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.

Woolcombes

Other OS name in the Parish of Harpford

Historical Forms

  • Wolcombe 1566 DA

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) is Wolcombe 1566 DA 43 . Perhaps ' wolves' cumb , ' cf. Woolacombe supra 54 .

Places in the same Parish

Major Settlement