The story
- Old English · inherited fromġemȳþe“a stream junction”
- Old English · inherited frommidd“middle”
- English todayMitford
From either Old English midd (“middle”) + ford (“ford”), thus "the middle ford", or from Old English ġemȳþe (“a stream junction”) + ford (“ford”), "the meeting ford", to denote the village situated where the rivers Font and Wansbeck meet.
Words from the same roots
Old Englishmidd all →
mid
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.