Hanscombe Family History
Hanscombe Name Meaning
from Hanscombe End in Shillington (Beds) which is recorded as Hanescompe in a 14th-century copy of a document from 1255. The place-name may derive from an Old English personal name *Hān (genitive *Hānes) + Old English camp ‘field enclosure’.
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016