Etymology

Belford

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Today it means: A village and civil parish in Northumberland, England (OS grid ref NU1033). Full definition →

Old English belle
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The story

  1. Old English · derived frombelle“bell; bell-shaped hill”
  2. English todayBelford

From Old English belle (“bell; bell-shaped hill”) + ford (“ford”).

Words from the same roots

Old Englishbelle all →

Bellingham

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.