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.

Lifford

Early-attested site in the Parish of King's Norton

Historical Forms

  • de la Ford c.1250 NQB 1275

Etymology

This is the ford by which Ryknild Street crosses the Rea.It is apparently a case of the French definite article coalescing with the following English significant word, cf. Lawell House in Chudleigh (D), 1329 ExonReg. mansum suum de la Walle .