DODFORD, (Northamptonshire) stands on a branch of the Avon, where is a ford a little to the S. E. of Daventry. Some think
it was heretofore the estate of the Dodfords, and that one might take name from the other; but Dr. Fuller thinks, it is
derived from the ford and the dods, or, as they are vulgarly called, cats tails, growing in, or near it. The Wyrlies
family have lived here a long time.