A city in British Columbia, Canada, located in the Fraser Valley east of Vancouver. Also refers to various other places named after abbots' river crossings or the historical estate of Sir Walter Scott.
From 'abbot' (head of an abbey) + 'ford' (shallow river crossing). Many places with this name derive from medieval locations where abbots maintained river crossings, or from Sir Walter Scott's estate Abbotsford House in Scotland, built in the early 1800s.
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