Church Lench

Church Lench is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of South Lenches, in the Wychavon district, in the county of Worcestershire, England, approximately 5.5 miles due north of Evesham and 13 miles due west of Stratford-upon-Avon.

The name 'Lench', shared by five local villages, comes from an Anglo-Saxon word 'linch', meaning 'rising ground, hill'.

The ancient parish of Church Lench appears in the Domesday Book of 1086.

Its earliest recorded history reveals that it was a gift by Kenred of Mercia to Evesham Abbey in 708.

[3] There is still evidence of medieval furrows in the farmland surrounding the parish church.