Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• on anne linc reawe, of þane linche 948 ShaftR(S534(1)) 15

• on þane hlinc, anlang hlinkes 956 14 ib

• La Linche 1254 FF 1285 FA

• atte Lynch(e) 1327 SR 1332 SR

• Lynch(e), Linch 1545,1562,1576 Hutch3 1590 Mansel

• the Linches Eliz Hutch3

• ye Lynches c.1586 Tres

• East Linch, East Lynch 1652 Hutch3 1861 Hutch3

• West Lynch, West Linch 1700 DCMDeed c.1774 Hutch3 1861

• Linch Fm 1811 OS

• Lynch Fm 1844 TA

• Lynch Lane 1783 DROMap

Etymology

'The ridge or bank', v. hlinc , with rǣw 'row (of trees, etc)', la , atte ; as Professor Löfvenberg notes, the OE  compound hlinc -rǣw may denote 'the boundary line formed by a bank' (BTSuppl) or may simply mean 'line or row of linches', cf. stān -rǣw 'line of stones' (BTSuppl). The Linches refers to East Lynch (now Lynch Fm) and West Lynch, both farms situated on the 200′ contour about ¼ mile apart on the N slope of a ridge which reaches 500′ ½ mile S and which is referred to as 'the south down' by Hutch3 1 527, cf. Norden infra .Lynch Lane 1783DROMap leads N from Lynch Fm.