English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Linch

Major Settlement in the Parish of Linch

Historical Forms

  • Lince 1086 DB
  • Linces 1195 Abbr 1240,1255 FF 1285 BodlA260 1314 Ipm
  • Linche, Lynche 1243 Ipm 1256,1280 FF 1283 Ipm 1291 Pat 1295 Ch
  • Lynches 1291 Tax, Cl

Etymology

This is the common word hlinc, 'hill, ridge,' often used, as in some forms of this name, in the plural. Cf. Linch supra 15.There is no village of Linch and we do not know the exact spot from which the parish takes its name.

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site