Proper Name guide
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A ford in the Tweed, Scottish Borders council area, Scotland, near Melrose Abbey.
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A suburb of Sydney in the Canada Bay council area, New South Wales, Australia.
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A hamlet in Burgess Hill parish, Mid Sussex district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ3020).
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A city and large municipality in Fraser Valley Regional District, Lower Mainland, British Columbia, Canada, in the Fraser Lowland. See Abbotsford, British Columbia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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A suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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A suburb of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa.
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A suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, named for an Australian farm named for the ford.
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A suburb, part of Green Island, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand, named for surveyor Edmund Abbot.
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A city in Wisconsin, United States, named for Wisconsin Central railroad executive Edwin Hale Abbott.
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History
From abbot + -s- + ford.
Coined by Royal Engineer John Cunningham Maclure, who settled there in the 1890s. From Abbotsford House and Abbott in combination. Abbotsford House, coined by Sir Walter Scott in 1811 after the nearby ford of Abbotsford on the River Tweed, named after the abbey and monks who used the ford, from abbot + -s- + ford. Of Abbott, in Abbott + -s- + ford, from the name of Canadian Pacific Railway superintendant Henry Abbott and Canadian Prime Minister John Abbott. Abbott and Abbotsford House in combination were used as the basis of the name of the Canadian settlement.
Named after Abbotsford House, coined by Sir Walter Scott in 1811 after the nearby ford of Abbotsford on the River Tweed, named after the abbey and monks who used the ford.
Named after the ford in Scotland near Melrose Abbey
From Abbott + -s- + ford.
Across languages
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