Telford (disambiguation)
Telford is an Old English place-name which derives from the elements "taelf", meaning "a plateau" and "forda", meaning "a shallow river crossing". There are several places named in the 1086 Domesday Book, the usual spelling being "Tejleford" of "Tevellsford" in Somerset, Warwickshire and Berkshire.[1]
It is held by some that Telford derives from the medieval French nickname for a soldier Taille-Fer (one who cuts with iron, see Telfer and Taillefer).
It may refer to:
Places
- Telford, Victoria, Australia, a small locality
- Telford Cut, a coal mine in South Australia
- Telford Lake, Alberta, Canada
- Telford (UK Parliament constituency), England
- Telford, Shropshire, England, a town
- Telford, Pennsylvania, United States, a borough
- Telford, Tennessee, United States, a census-designated place
Sport
- A.F.C. Telford United, an English football team
- Telford Raiders, an English rugby league team
- Telford Tigers, an English ice hockey team
- Telford United F.C., a defunct English football team
People and fictional characters
- Telford (surname), a list of people and fictional characters
- Telford Taylor (1908-1998), American lawyer and brigadier general, prosecutor at the Nuremburg trials
Other uses
- Telford (Lincoln University), an vocational training school in Otago, New Zealand, that merged with Lincoln University in 2011
- Edinburgh's Telford College, Scotland, a further education college
- Telford Medal, the highest prize awarded by the British Institution of Civil Engineers
- Telford Shopping Centre, the commercial centre of the town of Telford, England
- Telford FM, an English radio station
- All pages with titles containing Telford
References
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