English Explanatory Dictionary

Bishop's Stortford

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A town and civil parish with a town council in East Hertfordshire district, Hertfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL4821).

Word forms

Bishop's Stortford

Etymology

Uncertain. Possibly the Saxon settlement derived its name from 'Steorta's ford' or 'tail ford', in the sense of a 'tail', or tongue, of land. The town became known as Bishop's Stortford due to the acquisition in 1060 by the Bishop of London. The River Stort is named after the town: 16th-century cartographers assumed that the town must have been named after the ford over the river.

Derived words

Stort
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