 | William John Hardy, F. E. Robinson, William Paley Baildon - 1906 - 442 pages
...England generally whose names end in ford, and the very few that contain the word bridge — a striking " testimony to the want of facilities for travel at the time when our local names originated."' Only one really ancient town, at the time the Saxons were giving names to places, enjoyed the advantage... | |
 | William John Hardy, F. E. Robinson, William Paley Baildon - 1906 - 434 pages
...England generally whose names end in ford, and the very few that contain the word bridge — a striking " testimony to the want of facilities for travel at the time when our local names originated."1 Only one really ancient town, at the time the Saxons were giving names to places, enjoyed... | |
 | Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society - 1905 - 378 pages
...is shown on old maps of the town. The late Canon Isaac Taylor writes, in Names and their Histories: "The fact that five shires and ten county towns take...Hereford and we do not find a bridge before we come to Bridgnorth. The Thames had to be forded at Wallingford, Halliford, and Oxford; the Ouse at Bedford... | |
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Twyford, the twi, or two fords over the river Brent; and several others. And here, perhaps, a short digression may be allowed on the very large number of towns and villages throughout England generally whose names end in ford, and the very few that contain... 