VINICOMBE. From vian-coomb, the little valley; or win-coomb, the valley in the marsh.
VINTER. See Wintour.
VINTON. Another orthography of Venton; or from phin-todn, the little green lay or meadow.
VISACK, VISICK. See Physick.
VISSAN. See Trevisa.
VIUIAN, VIVEN, VIVIN. See Vyvian.
VOADEN. See Bawden.
VOASE, VOAZ, VOCE, VOICE. See Vose.
VODDEN, VODDON. From mod-den, the hill place, or the dwelling on the hill; or perhaps rather from vidhin, bidhin, vidn, vethan, a meadow. There is a mine called Tolvadden.
VOGAN. See Boggan.
VOSE. From vose, a ditch, intrenchment, wall, fortification; vôz, vôza, foza, id.; boza, bose, an intrenchment; fôz, fôs, a wall; from L. fossa, a ditch, moat, trench. Hence probably the names Boas, Boase, Boaz, Bice, Fice, Fos, Foss, Moase, Moysey(?), Vause, Vice, Voase, Voaz, Voce, Voice, Vos, Voss, Vossa, Voyce, Voysey(?).
VOSPER, VESPER, BOSPER. Hals writes the name also Uspar, Vospar, and Vospur, and says vosper or vospur in British-Cornish signifies "a pure or immaculate maid or virgin"! The name may translate the bare dwelling (vos-ber); or the great dwelling (bos-ver). There is a place called Trevosper near Launceston.
VOSS, VOSSA, VOYCE, VOYSEY. See Vose.
VOWELL. As a Cornish name, perhaps from moel, bald, bare. Cf. the Welsh Voel; from moel, a conical hill, literally bare, bald.
