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Bamford
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Origin Of The Surname Bamford
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Meaning Of The Surname Bamford
From the Town with the Ford and Footbridge
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Interesting
Facts About
Bamford
Bamford is a locational surname, coming from any of the places so-called or similarly spelled across Britain. Locational surnames were traditionally given to someone who had moved away to a new area, whereby they were assigned the name of their original home as a surname to differentiate them from the other townspeople. The place name itself is derived from the Old English ‘beam’ in this case referring to a footbridge combined with ford to mean ‘the ford with the footbridge’. Towns with this name would have had such a ford. |
Bamford Statistics
Bamford is the number 1067 ranked surname in the United Kingdom.
According to our statistics around 9,498 share the surname Bamford in the UK.
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