Editing Malvern Link (section)

==Etymology==
The place-name ''Link'' is first attested in 1215, in forms such as ''Link'' and ''Linche'', and the partly French forms ''La Lynke'' and ''La Lynche''. The name derives from the [[Old English]] word {{lang|ang|hlinc}} ("a ridge of land, bank") and must previously have denoted the outlying ridge of the [[Malvern Hills]] on which it is situated.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bahs.org.uk/15n2a4.pdf |title=British Agricultural History Society| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716111414/http://www.bahs.org.uk/15n2a4.pdf |archive-date=2011-07-16 | access-date= 6 February 2010}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |title=The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names, Based on the Collections of the English Place-Name Society |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2004 |isbn=9780521168557 |editor-last=Watts |editor-first=Victor |location=Cambridge}}, s.v. ''Malvern Link''.</ref>

A popular folk tale about the origin of the name is that it arose because the Victorians used to link up more horses to the carriages so that they could be pulled up the hill on the [[A449]], which runs through the centre of Malvern Link to the small urban centre of Link Top at its western end before arriving in the town centre of Great Malvern. At the point where the [[A449 road]] passes through Malvern Link it is called Worcester Road, as it leads directly into the centre of the city of Worcester about six miles to the north east.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}