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.
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Scrabbacleave Cottage
Scrabbacleave Cottage
Other OS name in the Parish of Wembworthy
Etymology
( 6 ″ ) is so spelt 1787
Recov
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Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
Rashleigh Barton
Other OS name
Combe
Heywood Wood
Labdon
Speke's Cross
Upcott
Wembworthy Down
Major Settlement
Wembworthy