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Bishop's Stortford

Bishop's Stortford proper noun: a town and civil parish with a town council in East Hertfordshire district, Hertfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL4821).

Proper noun

Bishop's Stortford

  1. A town and civil parish with a town council in East Hertfordshire district, Hertfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL4821).

Origin of Bishop's Stortford

Uncertain. Possibly the Saxon settlement derived its name from 'Steorta's ford' or 'tail ford', in the sense of a 'tail', or tongue, of land. The town became known as Bishop's Stortford due to the acquisition in 1060 by the Bishop of London. The River Stort is named after the town: 16th-century cartographers assumed that the town must have been named after the ford over the river.

Words formed from Bishop's Stortford

Questions about Bishop's Stortford

What does Bishop's Stortford mean?
Bishop's Stortford means a town and civil parish with a town council in East Hertfordshire district, Hertfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL4821).
What part of speech is Bishop's Stortford?
Bishop's Stortford is a proper noun.

Words near Bishop's Stortford in the dictionary

  1. bishop's nose
  2. Bishop's Nympton
  3. Bishop's Opening
  4. bishop's pawn
  5. bishop's pawns
  6. Bishop's Stortford
  7. Bishop's Tawton
  8. Bishop's Waltham
  9. bishop's weed
  10. bishop's weeds
  11. bishop's wine

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