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Survey of English Place-Names

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Wicken Clough

Other OS name in the Parish of Halifax

Etymology

, cf. the Wicken hill 1627 HAS 31, 136 , Wicking Hill 1634 ib 145 , v. cwicen ' mountain-ash ' .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name