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Tiverton Surname Meaning

from Tiverton (Devon) which is recorded as (æt) Twyfyrde in 880–85 (in a copy of about 1000) and Tuiverton in 1141–55.

The place-name derives from Old English *twī-fyrde ‘double ford two fords close together’.

(twī- ‘double two’ + fyrde ford ‘ford shallow place by which water can be crossed’).

+ tūn ‘farmstead estate’.

Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016


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