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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.

Petticombe

Other OS name in the Parish of Monkleigh

Historical Forms

  • Peatecumbe 1363 HMCiv,370
  • Peadecombe 1431 IpmR

Etymology

is Peatecumbe 1363 HMC iv, 370,Peadecombe 1431 IpmR . ' P (e )at (t )a 's valley , ' v. cumb and cf. Patchole supra 49 .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement