Claim: Horsforth comes from Old English meaning horses ford but was never recorded in the Doomsday Book of 1086.
Evidence: Horsforth was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Horseford, Horseforde, Hoseforde; but late-ninth-century coins with the legend ORSNA FORD and OHSNA FORD may have come from Horsforth.