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.

Wicken

Other OS name in the Parish of Kirkburton

Historical Forms

  • Wickins 1817 M

Etymology

, Wickins 1817 M , v. cwicen ' mountain-ash ' ( cf. Phonol. § 39 ) .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site