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.

Sundercombe

Other OS name in the Parish of Twitchen

Historical Forms

  • Sundercumb 1249 Ass

Etymology

is Sundercumb 1249Ass . sundor in OE  compounds usually has thesense of 'private, special,' as in sundorland , sundormǣd . Here it may mean ' cut off , ' ' remote . '

Places in the same Parish

Major Settlement