Combs Ditch Hundred
Hundred in the County of Dorset
Historical Forms
- (Con)cresdic hundret c.1086 GeldR
- Kilkesdich 1205,1206 P
- Culke(s)dich, Colke(s)dich 1268 Ass
- Cunekesdich 1207 P
- Cunekesdych 1300 Ipm
- Cunkesdych 1244,1288 Ass 1303 FA
- Cunkedych 1244 Ass
- Kunekesdych 1265 Misc
- Chunekesdych 1296 Ipm
- Cunkisdych 1428 FA
- Kunkesdich(e), Kunkesdych(e) 1459–1466 Lane
- Cunkesdik 1300 Ipm
- Conkesdich(e), Conkesdyche 1244 Ass 1307 Ipm 1469 Lane
- Conewesdyche 1251–2 Fees
- Con(n)ekesdyche 1268,1280,1288 Ass 1423 Midd
- Konekedyche 1268 Ass
- Coneghesdyche 1280 ib
- Konekesdyche 1317 MiltC
- Coukesdich(e), Coukesdyche (for Conkesdyche) 1338 Ipm 1414 Cl
- Conckysdyche 1542 LP
- Cuningedych 1244 Ass
- Comingesdych 1269 FF
- Conyngdych 1273 Banco
- Coningesdich(e), Coningesdych 1275 ib
- Cokesdich 1275 Cl 1288 Ass
- Kokesdich 1288 ib
- Cumebusdich 1275 RH
- Cokenesdych 1280 Ass
- Coombes Ditch 1664 HTax
- (anlang) cunucces dich 942 (15) ShaftR (S 485(1))
- (on) cinninces (for cunnuces) dic 943 (15) ib (S 490)
- Coombe Ditch 1800 EnclA
Etymology
Named from the Iron Age-RB boundary bank and ditch known as Combs Ditch (6″); this runs NW-SE (facing NE) and for most of its length forms the hundred bdy. It is referred to as (anlang ) cunucces dich 942 (15) ShaftR (S 485(1)) in the bounds of Winterborne T. par. infra , (on ) cinninces (for cunnuces )dic 943 (15) ib (S 490) in the bounds of Mapperton in Almer par. supra , Coombe Ditch 1800EnclA (Charlton M.), v. dīc . The first el. is PrWelsh *cönǭg or PrCorn *conǭg (Brit *cunāco -) of doubtful meaning (v. Jackson in JEPN 1 46, cf. Ekwall RN 92 and DEPN s.n. Cannock St for the older supposition that the el. meant 'hill', cf. also NTCB s.n. Cannock); the same word is found in Conock W, Consett Du, and probably also in Conkwell So 38 ((on ) cunuca leage 957 (e12) BCS 1001) and in the early forms of Chester le Street Du (Cuncaceastre , Cunceceastre c. 1050 DEPN). The name cunnuces dīc no doubt means 'the ditch called Cunnuc ', v. -es 2 .