[Image: Fragment of the Gough Map]
[Image: Fragment of the Gough Map]
The Gough Map of Great Britain
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Full record: Guildford
| County | Surrey |
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| Transcript | Gilford |
| Icon description | single building |
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| Etymology | possibly unrecorded OE *gylde, derived from gold, meaning 'yellow flowers' (?) + ford, 'ford' |
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| Earlier editors | Guilford (Parsons) |
| Early Maps | gilforde (Angliae Figura) |
| Overwritten | yes |
| Attested spelling | Gylford 1477 FF; earlier attestations have the first element in the form Gyld-/Geld-/Guld- |
