Hen and Chickens
Field in the Parish of Clifton Hampden
Historical Forms
- c.1425 Frid
Etymology
Hen and Chickens(cf. Hen and Chicks in the Dorchester Tithe Award;there are other occurrences of this name in Shilton(329) and PN Ca 357,PN Nt 293: v. EDD hen sb 2, where Hen and chickens is given as a dialectterm for eleven kinds of plant)