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.
Survey of English place-names
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Witcombe
Witcombe
Other OS name in the Parish of Kenton
Historical Forms
Wydecomb
1334
SR
Etymology
( 6 ″ ) is
Wydecomb
1334
SR
(p) . ' Wide
cumb
. '
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
Babels Bridge
Chiverstone Fm
Cofford Fm
Helwell Fm
Mowlish Fm
Oxton Ho
Starcross
Willsworthy
Other OS name
Ash Fm
Colleywell Bottom
Haydon Common
Kenwood
Pittsmoor
Vennbridge Fm
Major Settlement
Kenton