Henbrook
Early-attested site in the Parish of Dodderhill
Historical Forms
- Hensbroc 770 BCS204 11th
- Hennebroc 1201 WoC c.1240
- Henbrook 1559 Wills
Etymology
Sievers (Angelsächsische Grammatik , 289, n. 3) explains this name as containing the word hens , a noun with an s -suffix which would be the English cognate of ON hæns , a collective plural denoting poultry. Hence 'hens' (i.e. probably moorhens') brook.'