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.
Survey of English place-names
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Whatcomb Bottom
Whatcomb Bottom
Other OS name in the Parish of Boyton
Historical Forms
Whatcomb ib.
Etymology
is
Whatcomb
ib. , i.e. ( probably ) ' wheat valley . '
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
Corton
Other OS name
Barrow Hill
Boyton Bridge
Boyton Field Fm
Chattle Hole
Cratt Barn
Picket Grove
Starveall
West Wood
Major Settlement
Boyton