Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Nortforde 1086 DB

• Notforda Exon

• Nu[t]ford 1189 France

• Nutford(e) c.1191–7 ClR 1222 1225 FF 1227 FF 1234 FF 1238 Ch 1242–3 Fees

• Nutfort 1197 AddCh

• Nufed 1200 HarlCh 1280

• Neudfort 1201 AddCh 1231

• Nutteford 1228 ib

• Netford' 1265 Cl

• Notford(e) 1338 Ipm 1339 Cl 1486 Ipm

• Blakemitford 1252 FF

• Blakenotford 1280 Ass 1317 Pat 1319 FF 1339 Ipm

• Blakenotford juxta Blaneford 1344 FF

• Blakenotford by Blaneford 1352 Pat

• Blake Nortfford 1288 Ass

• Nutford Barnage iuxta Chyping' Blaneford 1288 Ass

• Nutford Barnard (sic) 1311 Hutch3

• Lytil-Notford 1423 Hutch3

Etymology

'The ford (on R. Stour) where nuts grow', from hnutu and ford , with blæc 'black, dark' and lȳtel 'little', cf. Blandford F. par. supra . The affix -Barnage is manorial, cf. terram Hamelini filii Radulfi Barnage 1197AddCh , Reginald Barnage 1311 Hutch3, Richard Joan Bernage 1332 SR. Some of the early unaffixed forms may strictly belong under France Fm in Stourpaine par. infra .