Editing Garforth (section)

==Etymology==
The place-name ''Garforth'' appears first in the [[Domesday Book]] of 1086 as ''Gereford'' and ''Gereforde'', with ''gar-'' spellings first appearing in 1336 in the form ''Garford''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Garforth {{!}} Domesday Book |url=https://opendomesday.org/place/SE4033/garforth/ |website=opendomesday.org |access-date=7 March 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Garforth :: Survey of English Place-Names |url=https://epns.nottingham.ac.uk/browse/West+Riding+of+Yorkshire/Garforth/5328827bb47fc40c81006111-Garforth |website=epns.nottingham.ac.uk |access-date=7 March 2023}}</ref> The name seems to derive from the [[Norsemen|Norse]] words ''gāra'' ('triangular plot of land', derived from the word ''gār'', 'spear') and ''ford'' ('ford)', and thus meant 'ford at a triangular plot of land'.{{cn|date=March 2023}} Or perhaps; Spear of the River Crossing.{{cn|date=March 2023}}

The plot is thought to have lain at a sharp turn in the road now called The Beck. Spellings beginning with ''ger-'' reflect the [[Old Norse]] counterpart of Old English ''gāra'', ''geiri'', and therefore the existence of Norse-influenced pronunciations of the name existing alongside Old English ones.<ref name=":0">Harry Parkin, ''Your City's Place-Names: Leeds'', English Place-Name Society City-Names Series, 3 (Nottingham: English Place-Name Society, 2017).</ref>{{rp|47}} Correspondingly, the district also once included the place Church Garforth, whose name is first attested in the fifteenth century as ''Kirkgarford''; here again the form ''kirk'' reflects the Old Norse form of the word ''church'', ''kirkja''.<ref name=":0" />{{rp|35–36}}