Andover

English

Etymology

From Middle English Andever, Andeafara, from Old English Andefera (“Andover”); possibly from Old English Ande + ēa + fara (literally “farer over the river Ande”) or from Old English Ande + ōfer (literally “[town situated on the] bank of the river Ande”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈændoʊvɚ/

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Proper noun

Andover

1. A town and civil parish with a town council in Test Valley district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU3645).
   • 2023 June 28, Stephen Roberts, “Bradshaw's Britain: Alton to Exeter”, in RAIL, number 986, page 59:

     Population 5,430 (more like 40,000 today), Andover is "a bustling agricultural town" with "many malt houses, and a factory for silk shag".

2. A parish in Victoria County, New Brunswick, Canada.
3. A number of places in the United States:
   1. A former settlement in Placer County, California.
      • 1985, Rodger Bradley, Amtrak: The US National Railroad Passenger Corporation, Blandford Press, page 120, photo caption:

        Amtrak's train No. 5, then known as the 'San Francisco Zephyr', westbound on Southern Pacific tracks, climbing the eastern side of the Donner Pass, at Andover, California, on 20th June 1974.

   2. A rural town in Tolland County, Connecticut.
   3. A neighbourhood of Miami Gardens, Miami-Dade County, Florida.
   4. A village in Henry County, Illinois.
   5. A minor city in Clinton County, Iowa, named after Andover, Vermont.
   6. A city in Butler County, Kansas.
   7. A town in Oxford County, Maine.
   8. A town and census-designated place therein, in Essex County, Massachusetts.
   9. A city in Anoka County, Minnesota.
   10. An unincorporated community in Harrison County, Missouri.
   11. A town in Merrimack County, New Hampshire.
   12. A borough and township in Sussex County, New Jersey.
   13. A village in Ashtabula County, Ohio.
   14. A small town in Day County, South Dakota.
   15. A town in Windsor County, Vermont.
   16. An unincorporated community in Wise County, Virginia.
4. A rural locality in Southern Midlands council area, Tasmania, Australia.