Horringford
Horringford is a settlement on the Isle of Wight, off the south coast of England. It is in the civil parish of Arreton.
The hamlet lies on the A3056 road, near to the larger settlement of Arreton. Horringford is approximately south-east of Newport. It contains the Horringford Manor.
Name
The name means 'the ford of the dwellers by the river fork', from Old English horn, -inga-, and ford. Ford is used for the horn-shaped tongue of land between the two streams that meet here, that are tributaries of the Eastern Yar.1235: Horningeforde
~1240: Horringeford
1255: Horningeford
13th century: Horingeford
1333: Horyngforde