The widdicombe Surname
widdicombe Name Meaning and History
English: habitational name from places in Devon called Widecombe in
the Moor, Widdicombe, or Widdacombe, or from Withycombe in Somerset or
Withycombe Raleigh in Devon. Both examples of Withycombe are named
from Old English withig ‘willow’ + cumb ‘valley’, and
Widecombe probably has the same derivation.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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