Mallender's Cottage
Early-attested site in the Parish of Wichenford
Etymology
In the Collecta Caleyana in the Birmingham Reference Library there is a form The Mallinder for this property, taken from a 16th cent. terrier in the Worcester Consistory Court.In Davenport's Washbourne Family 187 there is a lease in which it is spoken of as 'The two Malenders.' It is clear from these forms that the possessive form is an error and that the name contains the word malender , mallander , usually used in the plural, the name of a horse-disease. Presumably the ground was so called from some outbreak of it.