Etymology

Spofforth

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Today it means: A village in Spofforth with Stockeld parish, North Yorkshire, England, previously in Harrogate borough (OS grid ref SE3651). Full definition →

Old English splott
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The story

  1. Old English · derived fromsplott“plot of land”
  2. English todaySpofforth

From Old English splott (“plot of land”) + ford (“ford”).

Words from the same roots

Old Englishsplott all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.