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Hollacombe Wood

Other OS name in the Parish of Wembury

Historical Forms

  • Holecumbe juxta Sprydeleston 1298 Ass

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) is Holecumbe juxta Sprydeleston 1298Ass . ' Hollow valley , ' v. cumb .

Places in the same Parish