Hanford
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English
Alternative forms
- (surname): Handford
Etymology
From Welsh hen ("old") and ford ("a way"): the old way (Source: William Arthur 1857).
Proper noun
Hanford (countable and uncountable, plural Hanfords)
- A Welsh surname (the most common in England and the United States).
- A city, the county seat of Kings County, in central California, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Cerro Gordo County, Iowa.
- A former small agricultural community located in Benton County, Washington, which was depopulated in 1943 in order to make room for the nuclear production facility known as the Hanford Site.
- A village and civil parish in Dorset, England, previously in North Dorset district (OS grid ref ST8411).
- A suburb in south-west Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SJ8742).
Derived terms
References
- William Arthur: An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York, NY: Sheldon, Blakeman & Co., 1857. p. 153.