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Originally Posted by Kuruharan
We don't know exactly what the process of commanding the ford or adding white horses to the flood entailed so it may have been they were required to be elsewhere...but I think you are right that Rivendell wasn't close to the ford.
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Which is made clear in The Hobbit, Chapter 3. It also wasn't easy to find.
According to Tolkien's notes it was "28 miles (by road 30)" from the Ford to Rivendell.