Abbotsford

From abbot +‎ -s- +‎ ford.

Abbotsford

1. A ford in the Tweed, Scottish Borders council area, Southern Uploads, Scotland, United Kingdom, near Melrose Abbey.
2. A village in West Sussex, England, United Kingdom.

Coined by Royal Engineer John Cunningham Maclure, who settled there in the 1890s. From Abbotsford House and Abbott in combination. Abbotsford House, coined by Sir Walter Scott in 1811 after the nearby ford of Abbotsford on the River Tweed, named after the abbey and monks who used the ford, from abbot +‎ -s- +‎ ford. Of Abbott, in Abbott +‎ -s- +‎ ford, from the name of Canadian Pacific Railway superintendant Henry Abbott and Canadian Prime Minister John Abbott. Abbott and Abbotsford House in combination were used as the basis of the name of the Canadian settlement.

Abbotsford

1. A city and large municipality in Fraser Valley Regional District, Lower Mainland, British Columbia, Canada, in the Fraser Lowland. See Abbotsford, British Columbia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Named after Abbotsford House, coined by Sir Walter Scott in 1811 after the nearby ford of Abbotsford on the River Tweed, named after the abbey and monks who used the ford.

Abbotsford

1. A suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
2. A suburb of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa.

Named after the ford in Scotland near Melrose Abbey

Abbotsford

1. A suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, named for an Australian farm named for the ford.

From Abbot +‎ -s- +‎ ford.

Abbotsford

1. A suburb, part of Green Island, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand, named for surveyor Edmund Abbot. ^[1]

From Abbott +‎ -s- +‎ ford.

Abbotsford

1. A city in Wisconsin, United States, named for Wisconsin Central railroad executive Edwin Hale Abbott.

   Synonym: (former name) Colby Junction