Hanford.
A Welsh surname (the most common in England and the United States).
Meaning & usage
A Welsh surname (the most common in England and the United States).
A city, the county seat of Kings County, in central California, United States.
An unincorporated community in Cerro Gordo County, Iowa.
A former small agricultural community located in Benton County, Washington, which was depopulated in 1943 in order to make room for the nuclear production facility known as the Hanford Site.
A village and civil parish in Dorset, England, previously in North Dorset district (OS grid ref ST8411).
A suburb in south-west Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SJ8742).
Where this word comes from
From Welsh hen ("old") and ford ("a way"): the old way (Source: William Arthur 1857).
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