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.

Fenny Rough

Early-attested site in the Parish of Chaddesley Corbett

Historical Forms

  • Fenney in Harueington 1654 WillsP

Etymology

The first part of this name must be OE  fenn-eg, descriptive of an island in marshland.