Fiddleford is a hamlet in the county of Dorset in southern England.[1][2] Fiddleford is situated between Sturminster Newton and Okeford Fitzpaine in the North Dorset administrative district. It was founded by an English nobleman named Fitela (Fitela's Ford), and the aforementioned ford is over the River Stour.
The origin of the place-name is from Old EnglishFitela and ford meaning (homestead or farm) of a man called Fitela; the place-name appears as Fitelford in 1244.[3]
^Mills, A.D. (2011) [first published 1991]. A Dictionary of British Place Names (First edition revised 2011 ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 187. ISBN9780199609086.
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