Old Photograph Post Office Crawford Scotland

Old photograph of the Post Office in Crawford, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. This village of Crawfod is close to an old Roman road and has links with Sir William Wallace. This was also the site of a Roman fort between 80 AD and 140 AD housing perhaps 300 soldiers. Crawford is a surname, and occasional given name, of English, Scottish and Northern Irish origin. In some cases it is a habitational name derived from several different places called Crawford, for example Crawford, South Lanarkshire, Scotland; Dorset, England; and Somerset, England). The placename is derived from the Old English elements crāwe, crow, and ford. In some cases the surname is a variant spelling of the English surname Crowfoot As a surname, Crawford is the 289th most common name in Great Britain.



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