Hi Chuckle.
re no.2, a bit of a longshot here so please ignore at will ...
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was a poet, quite troubled during his lifetime by illness etc.. (although I suspect the same could be said of many poets). So .... COLE could be 'Troubled poet began' and FORD 'the crossing' making COLEFORD, in Gloucestershire.
Best Wishes.
JimC