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.

Marchant's Cross

Other OS name in the Parish of Meavy

Etymology

is referred to as Smalacumbacrosse in a perambulation of 1291(1408) (Dartmoor) . v. smæl , cumb . The later name might be connected with the family of Marchaund , found in Tavistock in 1281 (Ass ) .