Meanings
plural Orfords
- A number of places:
- countableuncountableA suburb of Warrington, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ609902).
- countableuncountableA village and civil parish in East Suffolk district, Suffolk, England (OS grid ref TM422499).
Seals are flourishing about 50 miles farther south, too. In 2021, a group of grey seals established the first seal colony in nearby Suffolk and began breeding on a remote shingle beach at Orford Ness, now a National Trust site but once the location for cold war weapons-testing.
2024 December 26, Donna Ferguson, “‘Britain’s wildlife safari’: baby boom in Norfolk as seal colonies flourish”, in The Guardian - countableuncountableA township municipality in Memphrémagog Regional County Municipality, Estrie, Quebec, Canada.
- countableuncountableA former township in Chatham-Kent municipality, Ontario, Canada.
- countableuncountableA town in Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States.
- countableuncountableA coastal village in Glamorgan-Spring Bay council area, Tasmania, Australia.
- countableuncountableA habitational surname from Old English.
Origin
- Old Englishōra“bank, shore”
- EnglishOrford
From Old English ōra (“bank, shore”) + ford (“ford”).
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Orford. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Orford
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