Hemingford Abbots
village · Cambridgeshire
Old EnglishSurmised
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Hemingford Abbots is named after a person named Heming, with the Old English suffix '-ford' meaning a river crossing. The 'Abbots' part refers to its historical ownership by an abbey.
Word origins
- Heming
- Old Englishpersonal name(from heman "to hem, surround", ing "son of")
- ford
- Old Englishriver crossing(from ford "a place where a river can be crossed")
- Abbots
- Norman Frenchbelonging to an abbey(from abbé "abbot")
Historical forms
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