A topographic surname from Middle English for someone who lived near a ford. • A male given name transferred from the surname. • A placename: • A number of places in the United Kingdom: • A number of places in England: • A hamlet in Dinton with Ford and Upton parish, Buckinghamshire (OS grid ref SP7709). • A hamlet in Eckington parish, North East Derbyshire district, Derbyshire (OS grid ref SK4080). • A suburb of Plymouth, Devon (OS grid ref SX4656). • A hamlet in Holbeton parish, South Hams district, Devon (OS grid ref SX6150). • A hamlet in Temple Guiting parish, Cotswold district, Gloucestershire (OS grid ref SP0829). • A hamlet in Ford and Stoke Prior parish, south of Leominster, Herefordshire (OS grid ref SO5155) • A suburban area in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, Merseyside (OS grid ref SJ3398). • A small village and civil parish in northern Northumberland (OS grid ref NT9437). • A village and civil parish west of Shrewsbury, Shropshire (OS grid ref SJ4113). • A village and civil parish in Arun district, West Sussex (OS grid ref TQ0003). • A small village in North Wraxall parish, Wiltshire (OS grid ref ST8375). • A village in Laverstock parish, near Salisbury, Wiltshire (OS grid ref SU1533). • A small village at the south-west end of Loch Awe, Argyll and Bute council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NN8603). • A hamlet in Wolfscastle community, Pembrokeshire, Wales (OS grid ref SM9526). • A number of places in the United States: • A ghost town in Bartow County, Georgia. • A minor city and township in Ford County, Kansas. • An unincorporated community in Clark County, Kentucky. • A township in Kanabec County, Minnesota. • An unincorporated community in Dinwiddie County, Virginia. • An unincorporated community in Stevens County, Washington. • A town in Taylor County, Wisconsin. • A carmaker, the Ford Motor Company; its brand.