Hanford

== English == === Alternative forms === (surname): Handford === Etymology === From Welsh hen ("old") and ford ("a way"): the old way (Source: William Arthur 1857). === Proper noun === Hanford (countable and uncountable, plural Hanfords) A Welsh surname (the most common in England and the United States). A city, the county seat of Kings County, in central California, United States. An unincorporated community in Cerro Gordo County, Iowa. A former small agricultural community located in Benton County, Washington, which was depopulated in 1943 in order to make room for the nuclear production facility known as the Hanford Site. A village and civil parish in Dorset, England, previously in North Dorset district (OS grid ref ST8411). A suburb in south-west Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SJ8742). ==== Derived terms ==== Hanfordite === References === William Arthur: An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York, NY: Sheldon, Blakeman & Co., 1857. p. 153.