Where does the last name Holcomb come from?

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Where does the last name Holcomb come from?

I have been told, germany, poland, and scotland... though the last one i really dont believe. Any help would be nice, im trying to track down where i came from.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Holcomb
This ancient surname is of Anglo-Saxon origin, and is a locational name from any of the various places named with the Olde English pre 7th Century "hol", hollow, sunken, deep, plus "cumb", valley, ravine. These places include: Holcombe,
Holcombe Rogus, and Holcombe Burnell in Devonshire, recorded respectively as "Holacumbe" circa 1070, as "Holancumbes landscare" in the Saxon Chartulary, dated 958, and as "Holecumba" in the Domesday Book of 1086; also Holcombe in Dorset, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, Somerset and Lancashire. Locational surnames, such as this, were originally given to local landowners, and the lord of the manor, and especially as a means of identification to those who left
their birthplace to settle elsewhere. Early examples of the surnames include: Adam de Holecumb (Somerset, 1256) and Ralph de Holecomb (Somerset, 1327). In 1525, one Thomas Holcombe was noted in the Subsidy Rolls of Sussex. A Coat of
Arms granted to the Holcombe family in 1620 is an azure shield with a silver chevron between three gold mens' heads in profile, couped at the shoulders, and wreathed about the temples black and silver. A man's head fullfaced, couped at the breast proper, and wreathed abouth the temples gold and azure, is on the
Crest. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Brihtmer aet Holacumbe, which was dated circa 1100, in the "Olde English Byname Register", during the reign of King William 11, known as "Rufus", 1087 - 1100.