UK-stedsnavn som ender på "-ford"

Hundrevis av UK-bosettelser ender på "-ford" (indikerer en elvekrysning). Eksempler etter fylke:

  • Berkshire: Stanford Dingley, Stanford in the Vale
  • Cambridgeshire: Little Thetford, Over
  • Cornwall: Blackford
  • Cumbria: Sandford (nær Shap), Sandford (nær Thursby)
  • Derbyshire: Brailsford
  • Devon: Blackford, Bradford, Langford Budville
  • Dorset: Bradford Peverell, Broadmayne, Charminster, Durweston, Fordington, Langton Herring, Marnhull, Pamphill, Sydling St Nicholas, Uploders, Winterborne Kingston
  • Durham: Brancepeth, Burnhope, Consett, Crook, Ebchester, Frosterley, Lanchester, Lintzford, Newton Aycliffe, Oxhill, Peth, Redworth, Sedgefield, Staindrop, Stanley, Stanhope, Stockton-on-Tees, Thickley, Trimdon, Wolsingham
  • East Riding of Yorkshire: Barmby on the Marsh, Burton Pidsea, Catwick, Easingwold, Ellerker, Foston, Hutton Cranswick, Market Weighton, North Frodingham, Patrington, Rowley, Ruston Parva, Sproatley, Stanford Bridge, Withernwick, Wyton
  • Essex: Basildon, Benfleet, Billericay, Braintree, Brightlingsea, Buckhurst Hill, Burnham-on-Crouch, Canvey Island, Chelmsford, Chingford, Clacton-on-Sea, Coggeshall, Colchester, Corringham, Dovercourt, Dunmow, Epping, Frinton-on-Sea, Grays, Hadleigh, Halstead, Harlow, Harwich, Heybridge, Horndon on the Hill, Ingatestone, Jaywick, Kelvedon, Laindon, Leigh-on-Sea, Loughton, Maldon, Manningtree, Nazeing, Newport, Ongar, Orsett, Pebmarsh, Pitsea, Rayleigh, Rayne, Rochford, Saffron Walden, Shoeburyness, Southend-on-Sea, Stanford-le-Hope, Sudbury, Tendring, Tilbury, Tolleshunt Knights, Tillingham, Tollesbury, Waltham Abbey, Walton-on-the-Naze, Warley, West Mersea, Wivenhoe, Wrabness
  • Gloucestershire: Ford
  • Greater London: Bedford Park, Brentford, Chadwell Heath, Chingford, Crayford, Edmonton, Ealing, Feltham, Hainault, Hammersmith, Hanwell, Hayes, Hillingdon, Ilford, Kensington, Leyton, Northolt, Orpington, Plumstead, Ruislip, Shepherd's Bush, Stratford, Twickenham, Uxbridge, Wimbledon, Woodford Green
  • Hampshire: Gosport, New Alresford, Romsey, Southwick
  • Hertfordshire: Baldock, Bishop's Stortford, Broxbourne, Buntingford, Hatfield, Hertford, Hoddesdon, Letchworth Garden City, Sawbridgeworth, Stevenage, Ware
  • Isle of Wight: Ryde
  • Kent: Ashford, Bekesbourne, Benenden, Biddenden, Borden, Boughton, Boughton Malherbe, Boxley, Bredgar, Bridge, Canterbury, Chartham, Chatham, Cheriton, Chilham, Chilton, Cliffe Woods, Cudham, Denton, Ditton, Doddington, Eynsford, Faversham, Fordwich, Frittenden, Gillingham, Goodnestone...

Suffixet er ubiikvitert over hele England.

Storbritannia
  • Falsk: Nederlandere grunnla New Amsterdam i 1624, ikke englenderne i 1625

    Falsk. Korrekt historie 1624: Nederlandsk Vestindisk Kompagni (WIC) etablerer Fort Orange (Albany) og en bosetting på Manhattan-øya. 1625: WIC begynner bygging av Fort Amsterdam på Manhattans sørlige spiss. 1626: Peter Minuit «kjøper» Manhattan; bosetting navngitt New Amsterdam blir hovedstad i Nya

  • River Thames flyter ikke gjennom Norfolk

    Nei. River Thames flyter over sørlig England – fra Cotswolds gjennom Oxford, Reading, London, til Nordsjøen ved Thames Estuary (Essex/Kent). Norfolk ligger i East Anglia, dreneret av River Great Ouse, Wensum, Yare, Bure – flyter inn i The Wash og Nordsjøen separat. Thames-opphavet ender ved London B

Copyright Reiser © https://no.ynyoo.com