Chesterford

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

The Essex village was recorded as Ceasterford in 1004, and Cestreforda in 1086 (DB).[1] The railway station at Great Chesterford was named Chesterford in an 1848 timetable. [2]

Proper noun[edit]

Chesterford

  1. Great Chesterford and Little Chesterford, neighbouring villages and civil parishes in north-west Essex, England.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Oxford Reference
  2. ^ Railway Magazine, November 1941, page 490

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