Where did the name coombs originate?

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Where did the name coombs originate?

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This interesting name is of medieval English origin and is a
dialectal of the locational or topographical name Coombe, itself
from any of the numerous places named with the Old English pre
7th Century "cumb", denoting a short, straight valley. There are
a large number of places in England, mostly spelled Combe,
generally found in the south West, for example Doron, Dorset,
Somerset, Hampshire and Surrey, and this surname may have any of
these places as its source, or perhaps a dweller in a "Cumb".

In the modern idiom the variants include "Co(u)mbe", Coom,
Co(o)mb(e)s, Cumber(s) and Co(o)m(b)er. Amongst the sample
recordings in Devon is the marriage between Mary Ann Coomber and
John Pasmore on November 5th 1778, at Chittlehampton, and the
christening of Philip Coombere on October 22nd 1780, at Stoke
Fleming. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown
to be that of
William le Combere (witness), which was dated
1260, in the "Assize Rolls of Cambridgeshire", during the reign
of
King Henry 111, known as "The Frenchman", 1216 - 1272.