Cleeve Combe
valley · North Somerset
Old EnglishSurmised
Probable2 sources · name elements
Cleeve Combe likely derives from the Old English 'clēofa', meaning a cleft or chasm. This is combined with 'cumb', an Old English word for a valley, likely borrowed from Brittonic.
Word origins
- Cleeve
- Old Englishcleft, chasm(from clēofa "cleft, chasm")
- Combe
- Old EnglishAttestedvalley(from cumb "valley")