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Rochford

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From Middle English Rochford, from two sources in Old English, both of which eventually converged into the modern form:

# 'The rook ford' or 'Rook's ford', from Old English hrōc (“rook”), genitive plural hrōca + ford, or else from Old English personal name Hrōc, genitive singular Hrōces + ford (respectively).

# 'Ford of the hunting dogs', from Old English ræċċ (“hunting dog”), genitive singular ræċċes (the vowel later assimilated to that of Old French roche (“rock, cliff”)) + ford.

proper noun Rochfords

  1. countable, uncountable A surname.
  2. countable, uncountable A town and civil parish in Rochford district, in southeastern Essex, England (OS grid ref TQ8790).
  3. countable, uncountable A local government district in Essex, named after the town of Rochford.
  4. countable, uncountable A civil parish and two hamlets, Lower Rochford and Upper Rochford, in Malvern Hills district, Worcestershire, England (OS grid refs SO6368/6367).
  5. countable, uncountable A small settlement and locality in the Shire of Macedon Ranges, Victoria, Australia.
  6. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Pennington County, South Dakota, United States.

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@misc{rochford_2026,
  title = {Rochford},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/rochford},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}