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Some questions

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  1. How is the name pronounced? Like 'wolly' to rhyme with 'Molly', or long 'a' 'warl-ee' to rhyme with 'poorly' or short-a 'wall-ee' to rhyme with 'dally'?
  2. Where does the name originate? Might it mean 'great ford'?
  3. Who named it 'Wallyford'? When? Why?
  4. What is the ford in the name crossing? I can't see any rivers there on a map.
  5. What is the earliest reference to the place?
  6. How old the earliest known settlements in that location?
  7. How old is the oldest remaining building?
  8. Were the coal-miners the very first people to live here, or did they move into an existing settlement? (Elsewhere - in England and Wales - I know coal-miners walked great distances each day to get to mines until they were well-established.)
  9. Any reference to other settlements in the same location in old texts?
  10. One could add transport links. There's a bus to Wallyford seems to pass my window every few minutes, and I want to the what, where, why and when of Wallyford! (I suppose I ought to get on that bus one day...)
  11. It's on the East Coast Main Line; what do we know about the building of the station and its impact?
  12. The A1 appears to be going slightly around it; was the A1 avoiding marshy ground or something (hence the need for a ford)?
  13. Earliest references on Ordnance Survey maps? Old county maps?
  14. Historic land owner(s)
  15. Any archaeological evidence of interest?

SandJ-on-WP (talk) 13:32, 12 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]