[ANSTHRLD] Fwd: Name research question

[Scott Carledge]

Sheepford can only be a place-name if both "sheep" and "ford" are
documented.

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On Wed, 23 May 2012, Scott Carledge <scat at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
> tmcd at panix.com:
> > The patterns may be more subtle than you realize.  Knowing Oxford 
> > and Swinford, you can infer a pattern of "large domesticated animal 
> > + ford".  There's Hartford too, so it's probably that "large 
> > four-legged animal + ford" is the real pattern.
>
> Nor would it support Sheepford

Why not?  (q.v.)

> --Shepford, maybe.  We need to be able to document the actual spelling 
> used in period.

Or we have to construct a name that is plausible according to period
patterns.  From the above, "Sheepford" looks reasonable to me.
Is there a problem with it?

http://www.britainexpress.com/counties/bedfordshire/az/shefford.htm
says that Shefford in Bedfordshire was originally Sheepford, but, you know,
not an onomastics page.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkland_Canal says that the construction
started at Sheepford, which appears to be the modern name.

Daniel de Lincolnia
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Tim McDaniel, tmcd at panix.com
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