Horton.
A town and locality in the Bundaberg Region, Queensland, Australia.
Meaning & usage
A town and locality in the Bundaberg Region, Queensland, Australia.
A township in Renfrew County, Ontario, Canada.
A number of places in England: A village and civil parish in Windsor and Maidenhead borough, Berkshire (OS grid ref TQ0175).
A number of places in England: A hamlet in Ivinghoe civil parish, Aylesbury Vale district, Buckinghamshire (OS grid ref SP9219).
A number of places in England: A former civil parish, in full, Horton by Malpas, now in Shocklach Oviatt and District civil parish, Cheshire West and Chester borough, Cheshire (OS grid ref SJ4549); the local hamlet is Horton Green.
A number of places in England: A village and civil parish in Dorset, previously in East Dorset district (OS grid ref SU0307).
A number of places in England: A village and civil parish in South Gloucestershire district, Gloucestershire (OS grid ref ST7584).
A number of places in England: A village and civil parish in Ribble Valley district, Lancashire (OS grid ref SD8550).
A number of places in England: A village in Hackleton parish, West Northamptonshire, Northamptonshire, previously in South Northamptonshire district (OS grid ref SP8254).
A number of places in England: A rural locality and former civil parish, now in Blyth parish, Northumberland, formerly in Blyth Valley borough (OS grid ref NZ2779).
A number of places in England: Two settlements, East Horton and West Horton, in Chatton parish, Northumberland (OS grid ref NU0230).
A number of places in England: A hamlet and manor in Wem Rural civil parish, Shropshire.
A number of places in England: A village and civil parish in Somerset, previously in South Somerset district (OS grid ref ST3214).
A number of places in England: A small village and civil parish in Staffordshire Moorlands district, Staffordshire (OS grid ref SJ9457).
A number of places in England: A hamlet in Bishops Cannings civil parish, Wiltshire (OS grid ref SU0463).
A small village in Penrice community, southern Gower peninsula, Swansea, Wales (OS grid ref SS4785).
A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Marshall County, Alabama.
A number of places in the United States: A ghost town in Inyo County, California.
A number of places in the United States: A small city in Brown County, Kansas.
A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Hubbard County, Minnesota.
A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Howell County, Missouri.
A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Vernon County, Missouri.
A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Lane County, Oregon.
A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Randolph County, West Virginia.
A habitational surname from Old English.
Where this word comes from
The majority of the English toponyms derive from Old English horh (“mud, slime”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement”). The village in Gloucestershire derives from Old English heorot (“stag, hart”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement”)
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