Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for FORD

FORD, a word corrupted from Ffordd, signifying "a passage or way, " and used, both by itself and as a prefix, in topographical nomenclature.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Feature Description: "a word corrupted from Ffordd, signifying "a passage or way, ""