User:Chingford
From Peter
The River Ching runs through the area, and the town of Chingford is close to a number of fords of that river.
However, old maps and descriptions give a name for the settlement long before the river has a name and it is likely that the name of the river as "Ching" arose long after the settlement was named.
It is also thought that, similarly to how Kingston upon Thames appears in Domesday Book of 1086 as Chingestone and Chingetun(e), with ching being old English for king, that Chingford could refer to the King's river, and Kings Ford.
This idea is compounded by links to royalty using the area for hunting in centuries gone by.
