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Langford

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Two main origins:

* From Old English lang (“long”) + ford (“ford”).

* The village in Nottinghamshire may derived from an Old English personal name *Landa + ford.

proper noun Langfords

  1. countable, uncountable A village and civil parish in Central Bedfordshire district, Bedfordshire (OS grid ref TL1840).
  2. countable, uncountable A village and civil parish in Maldon district, Essex (OS grid ref TL838089).
  3. countable, uncountable A hamlet in Ickburgh parish, Breckland district, Norfolk (OS grid ref TL8396).
  4. countable, uncountable A village and civil parish in Newark and Sherwood district, Nottinghamshire (OS grid ref SK8258).
  5. countable, uncountable A village and civil parish in West Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire (OS grid ref SP2402).
  6. countable, uncountable A city in British Columbia, Canada.
  7. countable, uncountable A former rural municipality in Manitoba, Canada, now part of the Municipality of North Cypress-Langford.
  8. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Kent County, Maryland.
  9. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Rankin County, Mississippi.
  10. countable, uncountable A hamlet in Erie County, New York.
  11. countable, uncountable A town in Marshall County, South Dakota.
  12. countable, uncountable A habitational surname from Old English. The Auschwitz Memorial Museum slammed Kyle Langford, Republican candidate for Governor of California, after his antisemitic remarks, calling out his actions as a “profound moral failure.”

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@misc{langford_2026,
  title = {Langford},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/langford},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}