Uggescombe Hundred
Hundred in the County of Dorset
Historical Forms
- oglescome hundret (sic) c.1086 GeldR
- Vggescumbe 1195 P 1244,1268,1280,1288 Ass
- Vggeskumbe 1280 Ass
- Vggescombe 1327 SR
- Uggescumb(e) 1269 Misc 1271 Pat 1280 QW 1285,1303 FA
- Vggescombe 1325 Pat
- Wggescumbe, Vuggescumbe 1288 Ass
- Vgguscombe 1383 Ilch
- Vggiscombe 1653 ParlSurv
- Ugescumb' 1212 Fees
- Huggescumbe 1244 Ass 1275 RH 1280 QW 1288 Ass
- Huggescombe 1280 Ass 1329 Ipm
- Hugescumb' 1251–2 Fees
- Hoggescumb(e) 1265 Misc
- Hoggescombe 1400 Ilch
- Ocguscumbe 1268 Ass
- Hogescumbe 1322 Ext
- Ogescombe 1425 IpmR
- Uggecombe 1280 QW 1431 FA
- Uchescombe 1303 FA
- Vggscombe 1664 HTax
- Uggscombe 1795 Boswell
Etymology
Probably '*Ucg's valley', from an OE pers.n. *Ucg and cumb. A corresponding weak form of the pers.n., *Ucga , has been suggested for several names including Ugborough PN D 284, Ugford PN W 214, and Ugley PN Ess 553, cf. Kökeritz SNPh 6 131 and Dodgson PN Ch 5:1 xiv–xv for further discussion of this group of names along with some speculation regarding the existence of an OE *(h )ucg or the like, possibly a topographical term for a hill.
The hundred takes its name from the lost Uggescombe q. v. in Portisham par. infra (Uggescomb 1270), v. also Mystecombe in the same par. which is an alternative name for the valley in which the hundred courts were held.