Sandford is an English language toponymic surname, deriving from numerous localities named for a sandy ford.[1]

Sandford
Origin
Language(s)Old English
Meaningsandy ford
Region of originEngland, Scotland
Other names
Variant form(s)Sanford, St Fort

St Fort in Fife, originally Sandforde or Sandford,[2][3] is a Scottish origin of the name.[4]

Notable Sandfords

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References

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  1. ^ Cottle, Basil (1978). The Penguin Dictionary of Surnames. London: Penguin Books Ltd. p. 330. Sandford local name 'sandy ford' Old English; places in eleven counties
  2. ^ "Fife Place-name Data :: St Fort". fife-placenames.glasgow.ac.uk.
  3. ^ "Fife Place-name Data :: Ploughlands Of St Fort". fife-placenames.glasgow.ac.uk.
  4. ^ Black, George F. (1946). The Surnames of Scotland (1993 ed.). Edinburgh: New York Public Library/Birlinn. p. 710. ISBN 1-874744-07-6. SANDFORD. From Sandford, now St. Fort in the parish of Forgan, Fife. William de Sandfor witnessed a charter of part of the lands of Carrecros (= Cairncross), c. 1239... Thomas Sandfurd was slain in 1538... The form Santford with unvoiced t due to the following f is the source of the popular etymology of the place name from a mythical St. Fort.