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.

Boveycombe

Other OS name in the Parish of Lustleigh

Historical Forms

  • Bovycomb 1330 SR

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) is Bovycomb 1330SR (p) . ' Bovey valley , ' supra 2 , v. cumb .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement