Umbourne Brook is a watercourse in
Devon
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, England. In rises south-east of
Upottery
Upottery (originally Up Ottery) is a rural village, civil parish and former manor in East Devon, England.
Location
Upottery takes up both sides of the upper vale of the Otter which flows to the English Channel south of Ottery St Mary and is a ...
and runs past the villages of
Widworthy and
Wilmington then joins the
River Coly
The River Coly is a long river in the county of Devon, in the south-west of England. It rises in several streams in the north of the parish of Farway. It then flows south through Farway village before turning east and flowing through the town of ...
at
Colyton. The Coly joins the
River Axe which discharges into the English Channel between
Seaton and
Axmouth
Axmouth is a village, civil parish and former manor in the East Devon district of Devon, England, near the mouth of the River Axe. The village itself is about inland, on the east bank of the Axe estuary. The parish extends along the estuary ...
.
Tristram Risdon
Tristram Risdon (c. 1580 – 1640) was an English antiquarian and topographer, and the author of ''Survey of the County of Devon''. He was able to devote most of his life to writing this work. After he completed it in about 1632 it circulated ar ...
, writing in called the stream the ''little river Womborne'', and
Richard Polwhele
Richard Polwhele (6 January 1760 – 12 March 1838) was a Cornish clergyman, poet and historian of Cornwall and Devon.
Biography
Richard Polwhele's ancestors long held the manor of Treworgan, 4 3/4 miles south-east of Truro in Cornwall, whi ...
, 1797, referred to it as ''The Omber or Wombern''. The name has the same derivation as ''
Wimborne
Wimborne Minster (often referred to as Wimborne, ) is a market town in Dorset in South West England, and the name of the Church of England church in that town. It lies at the confluence of the River Stour and the River Allen, north of Poole ...
'' in Dorset, from
Old English
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''wimm'' meaning a meadow. The stream gives its name to Womberford, a
ford
Ford commonly refers to:
* Ford Motor Company, an automobile manufacturer founded by Henry Ford
* Ford (crossing), a shallow crossing on a river
Ford may also refer to:
Ford Motor Company
* Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company
* Ford F ...
at a now-lost location in the parish of
Cotleigh
Cotleigh is a village and civil parish near Honiton in Devon, England. It is surrounded clockwise from the north by the parishes of Upottery, Stockland
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.
[Gover, J.E.B., Mawer, A. & Stenton, F.M. (1931). ''The Place-Names of Devon''. English Place-Name Society. Vol viii. Part I. Cambridge University Press. pp. 15, 625.]
See also
*
List of rivers of England
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References
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Rivers of Devon