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little hereford

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.11 in modern English

Syllables
lit-tle here-ford
IPA
21
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A village and civil parish (served by Brimfield and Little Hereford Group Parish Council) in north Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO5468).

Etymology

Recorded as Lutelonhereford, Domesday Book 1086, from Old English lȳtel (“little”), dative lȳtlan. The name may have arisen from being an area north of the River Teme almost cut off from the rest of Herefordshire.

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Questions

What does little hereford mean?
A village and civil parish (served by Brimfield and Little Hereford Group Parish Council) in north Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO5468).
Where does little hereford come from?
It is traced to Old English.

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