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.

Rutherford

Early-attested site in the Parish of Barningham

Historical Forms

Rotherforde 1332 VCHi.39

Rudderforth 1608 NR

Etymology

'Ford where the oxen pass' v. hryðer , ford . The form with -u - is to be explained in the same way as Ruswarp 125supra .

Places in the same Parish

Major Settlement

Early-attested site