Welford
Major Settlement in the Parish of Welford
Historical Forms
- (æt) Welig forda, (to) Weligforda 949 contemporary ib
- (æt) Weligforda 956 c.1200 ib
- Waliford 1086 DB
- Walifort, Waliford Hy1 ClaudiusCix c.1200
- Wali(g)ford c.1200 ClaudiusCix
- Waleford' 1284 Ass
- Weliford' 1167 P
- Weleford' 1178 ib
- Welif' 1220 Fees
- Weliford 1230 Pat
- Welleford' 1272 Os 1284 Ass
- Weleford 1275–6 RH 1284 Ass
- Weleforde 1316 FA
- Welford 1386 Fine
Etymology
'Willow ford', from welig and ford . The place is on the R. Lambourn. BCS 366 is spurious.
Places in the same Parish
Other OS name
- Breach Barn
- Field's Copse
- Mantclose Barn, Mantclose Copse
- Welford Wds
- Board Lane
- Elton Lane, Elton Wd
- King's Barn
- Welford Park
- Alder's Copse
- Barn Copse
- Baydon Rd
- Benham Burslot
- Benham Border, Benham Grange, Benham Fm
- Buck's Copse
- Home Fm
- Milton Lodge
- New Barn
- Newground Border
- Ninnock's Border
- Paine's Copse
- Pound's Border
- Queen's Plantation
- Red Ho
- The Rookery
- Royal Ground Border
- Rubbish Border
- Ryelands Border
- Scroggin's Copse
- Shirley's Copse
- Showells
- Sole Border, Sole Common, Sole Plantation
- South Barn
- Stogdale Copse
- Stony Croft
- Tithe Barn
- Tullock Fm, Tullock Border, Tullock Bottom
- Wadling's Border
- Blindman's Border
- Easton Copse
- Five Bells P.H.
- Francis Copse
- Glebe Fm
- Grey's Copse
- The Grove, Grove Border
- Halfway, Halfway Fm, Halfway P.H.
- Harrod's Barn, Harrod's Border
- Hell Pit
- Highwood Copse
- Hoe Benham, Hoe Benham Lane
- Welford Fm
- Weston Fm, Weston Mill
- Wickham Green, Wickhamgreen Fm
- The Wilderness
- Woodlands Barn