Foxton.
A placename:
Meaning & usage
A placename: A place in England: A village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire (OS grid ref TL4148).
A placename: A place in England: A small village in Sedgefield parish, County Durham (OS grid ref NZ3624).
A placename: A place in England: A village and civil parish in Harborough district, Leicestershire (OS grid ref SP7090).
A placename: A place in England: A hamlet in Thimbleby parish, North Yorkshire, previously in Hambleton district (OS grid ref SE4296).
A placename: A town in Manawatū-Whanganui, New Zealand.
A placename: An unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Colorado, United States.
A habitational surname from Old English.
Where this word comes from
From Old English fox (“fox”) + either tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”) or denu (“valley”).
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