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| Name Ending |
| Introduction |
| -bec, beck |
| -burgh |
| -by, bi |
| -chester, caister |
| -den, dene |
| -don |
| -field |
| -firth |
| -ford |
| -hall |
| -ham |
| -ing |
| -kirk |
| -ley, lea, leigh |
| -minster |
| -scale |
| -sea, sey |
| -shaw, shawe |
| -stock, stoke, stow |
| -thwaite |
| -ton |
| -ville |
| -wick |
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New Light on Old Place Names
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Basic meaning="crossing place" |
Place names using the term
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Fordd (pronounced "forth") was an early Celtic worth to indicate a place where people could go forth (usually across a river).
There has been some confusion at times between this word and another similarly pronounced word which came from the Danes - worth (pronounced "vorth" and meaning a clearing in front of the house - what we would today call a cottage garden).
The later Angles and Normans found a double-D incomprehensible and unilaterally removed one of the Ds to make "ford".
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