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Hungerford

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Meaning

  1. A hamlet in Munslow parish, Shropshire (OS grid ref SO5389).
  2. A placename:
  3. A town and civil parish with a town council in West Berkshire district, Berkshire (OS grid ref SU3368).
  4. A hamlet in Old Cleeve parish, Somerset West and Taunton district, Somerset (OS grid ref ST0440).
  5. A settlement in Tweed municipality, Hastings County, Ontario, Canada.
  6. A place in England:
  7. A hamlet in Hyde parish, New Forest district, Hampshire (OS grid ref SU1612).
  8. A hamlet in Waltham St Lawrence parish, Windsor and Maidenhead borough, Berkshire (OS grid ref SU8274).

Etymology / origin

From Old English hungor (“hunger, famine”) + ford (“ford”), a name which probably denoted an unproductive or barren land.

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