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Chitcombe Down

Other OS name in the Parish of Woolland

Etymology

, 1839TA , cf. ( montem vocat ' … ) Chyd (e )combebache 1384 (e16) Prideaux , Chydecombysbache 1385 (e15) MiltRoll , Chitcombe Hill '1544Prideaux , Chytcom (b )e Hyll '1550, 1557Prideaux , Chidcombe Hill '1570Prideaux , v. Chitcombe Fm supra , hyll ; -bache seems to represent another early instance of batch ' hillock ' , cf. Southbach ' in Milton A . par . supra .