# Montford

> English word · Proper noun · frequency rank #96,246

## Definitions
1. A village and civil parish in Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ4114).
2. A historic district and neighbourhood in Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina, United States.
3. A habitational surname from Old English.

## Etymology
Recorded as Maneford in the Domesday Book, the village's name derives from Old English ġemǣne (“common, general, communal”) + ford (“ford”). The surname could also be a variant of Mundford.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/montford