_Twyford._--Simeon of Durham relates the history of the acts of a
council held A.D. 684, in the presence of King Egfrid, and presided over
by Archbishop Theodore, at a place called _Twyford_, near the river Alne
[_Ættwyforda, quod significat ad duplex vadum._]--_Libellus_, &c., p.
44. Is there any vestige or record of the site of Twyford? Camden
mentions it when speaking of the Northumberland coast:
"The shore afterwards opens for the river Alaun, which, still
retaining the same name it had at Ptolemy's time, is called by
contraction Alne, on whose bank is _Twifford_, q. d. _Two-fords_,
where was held a synod under King Egfrid; and Eslington, Alnwick,"
&c.