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What is the origin of the name Beaufoy?
from Beaufour (Calvados) which is recorded as Belfou (1040-66) Beaufou (1100) and Bellefaie (about 1160). The place-name is Old French for ‘fine beech’ confirmed by its rendering into Latin bellum fagum. [...]