English: habitational name from any of various places named
Kingsford, for example in Essex, Devon, Warwickshire, and
Worcestershire. The name ostensibly means ‘the king’s ford’, but the
one in Worcestershire is named as Ceningaford ‘ford of
Cena’s people’.
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