English Explanatory Dictionary

Bayford

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A village and civil parish in East Hertfordshire district, Hertfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL3108).
  2. A large hamlet near Wincanton in Stoke Trister parish, South Somerset district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST7229).
  3. An unincorporated community in Northampton County, Virginia, United States.
  4. A habitational surname from Old English.

Word forms

Bayford Bayfords

Etymology

From the Old English personal name Bōia + ford (“ford”). In Hertfordshire, recorded as Begesford 1086 (Domesday Book), and Begeford in 1090; the ford of a man called Bǣga.

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