What is "lawford"

Lawford is a large village and civil parish in the Tendring district of northeast Essex, England. It is approximately northeast from the centre of Colchester and west of, and contiguous with, Manningtree. Mistley merges with the east side of Manningtree.

The Leftley Housing estate, situated towards the east of the village, is a typical 1960s development of mainly semi-detached houses and bungalows.

The area includes a number of smallholdings originally built by the Land Settlement Association.

The 14th-century parish Church of St Mary is a Grade I listed building.

Lawford is a village in Essex, England.

Lawford may also refer to:

Places:

• Lawford, Somerset, England, a village
• Lawford, Virginia, United States, an unincorporated community
• Lawford, West Virginia, United States, an unincorporated community
• Lawford Islands, Nunavut, Canada

People:

• Barbara Ann Lawford (born 1942), American model and Playboy Playmate of the Month for February 1961
• Betty Lawford (1912–1960), English actress
• Christopher Lawford (born 1955), American author, actor and activist, son of Peter Lawford
• Dean Lawford (born 1977), English former rugby league footballer
• Herbert Lawford (1851–1925), Scottish tennis player
• John Lawford (c. 1756–1842), Royal Navy admiral
• Ningali Lawford (born 1967), Australian actress
• Patricia Kennedy Lawford (1924–2006), American socialite, sister of John F., Robert and Ted Kennedy
• Peter Lawford (1923–1984), English-born American actor
• Sydney Turing Barlow Lawford (1865–1953), British Army lieutenant-general, father of Peter Lawford
• Trent Lawford (born 1988), Australian cricketer
• Lawford Davidson (1890–1964), British film actor

Other uses:

• HMS Lawford, two ships of the Royal Navy
• William Lawford, a fictional character in Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe novel series
• Lawford, New Hampshire, a fictional town depicted in the 1989 novel Affliction by Russell Banks