Abbotsford

Meaning

Proper Noun

• ford river, Tweed council area, Scottish Borders Southern Uploads (region) Scotland (constituent country) UK (country) near Melrose Abbey
• region West Sussex (county) England (constituent country) UK (country)
• city City of Abbotsford (region) Fraser Valley Regional District (region) Lower Mainland (region) British Columbia (province) Canada (country) in the Fraser Lowland (region)
• ; district Fraser Valley Regional District (region) Lower Mainland (region) British Columbia (province) Canada (country) in the Fraser Lowland (region)
• suburb city, Sydney New South Wales (state) Australia (country)
• suburb city, Johannesburg Gauteng (province) South Africa (country)
• suburb city, Melbourne Victoria (state) Australia (country) named for an Australian farm named for the ford
• suburb , part of town, Green Island city, Dunedin Otago (region) New Zealand (country) named for surveyor Edmund Abbot.
• city Wisconsin (state) USA (country) named for Wisconsin Central (railroad) executive Edwin Hale Abbott

Origin

• abbot + -s- + ford.
• 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.
• 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.
• Named after the ford in Scotland near Melrose Abbey
• Abbot + -s- + ford
• Abbott + -s- + ford