Clench Family History
Clench Name Meaning
from one or more of the various places with names deriving from Old English *clenc ‘lump mass; hill; elevated land in a fen’ such as Clinch Green in Northiam (Sussex) Clench in Milton Lilborne and Clinghill (recorded as le Clynche in 1409) in Bromham (both Wilts).
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016