Chelmsford

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Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A city in and the county town of Essex, England, granted city status in 2012.
  2. 2
    A local government district with borough status of Essex, the City of Chelmsford, originally formed in 1974, with its headquarters in the county town.
  3. 3
    A town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts.

Etymology

Ultimately from Old English Ċēolmǣres (“Ceolmær's”) + ford, after an early landowner.

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