Linford (Great and Little)
Major Settlement in the Parish of Great and Little Linford
Historical Forms
- (a) Linforde 1086 DB 1175 P 1224 Bract 1225 Abingd 1227 Ass 1232–42 Fees 1238 Gross 1247,1262 Ass 1291 Tax
- Lindeford 1175 P
- Lynford 1284 1392 ADii 1494 ADii 1496 Ipm 1561 BM
- Limford 1291 Tax
- Lymford 1316 Ch 1326 Abbr 1535 VE
- Mechel Lyngford 1396 Pat
- Lidforth 1542 LP
- Lydforth 1561 BM
- Lyndford 1560 BM
- Lenford 1561 BM
- (b) Lufforde, Lunforde 1220–34 WellsR
- Lunforde 1227,1241 Ass
- Magna 1227 Ass
Etymology
OE hlynn-ford , 'ford by the stream or pool,' v. hlynn . There are spacious ponds amounting to small lakes both at Great and Little Linford (Harman). The Lin -, Lyn - forms are the regular EMidl forms, those in Lun - are Southern. The Lym - forms show partial assimilation of nf to mf , those in ndf , a common development of epenthetic d , those in Lid -, Lyd - simplification of the consonant group ndf . See Addenda.