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Survey of English Place-Names

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Wicken Grain

Other OS name in the Parish of Almondbury

Historical Forms

  • Wicking 1843 O.S.

Etymology

, Wicking 1843 O.S. , v. cwicen , dial . whicken ' mountain ash ' ( for w - for cw - cf. Phonol. § 39 ) , grein ' river-fork ' .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name