Shefford
English
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Etymology
[edit]From Old English sċēap (“sheep”) + ford (“ford”).
Proper noun
[edit]Shefford (countable and uncountable, plural Sheffords)
- A town and civil parish in Central Bedfordshire district, Bedfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL1439). [1]
- A habitational surname from Old English.
Derived terms
[edit]Statistics
[edit]- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Shefford is the 20991st most common surname in England, belonging to 211 individuals.
References
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Shefford”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
- Forebears
Categories:
- English terms derived from Old English
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Towns in Bedfordshire, England
- en:Towns in England
- en:Civil parishes of England
- en:Places in Bedfordshire, England
- en:Places in England
- English surnames
- English surnames from Old English