sentences:  Other forms that cropped up in later records are "Concham" (1152), "Concka" (1270), "Kuncke" (1298), "Conken" (1304), "Kuncha" (1328), "Kuncken" (1377) and Konken (1824).The word originally meant “seashell”, which may well have been a reference to the broad, seashell-shaped dale in which the village lies.Local historians, however, have derived the name from the Latin "conca", with its similar meaning of oyster, scallop or more broadly mollusk, apparently also a reference to the local geography.