English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Stratford

Early-attested site in the Parish of Sandy

Historical Forms

  • Stratford 1325 Ipm

Etymology

This is a ford which must have carried the Roman road, of which mention is made under Stratton supra 102, across one of the feeders of the Ivel at this point.