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Horton.

A town and locality in the Bundaberg Region, Queensland, Australia.

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name/ˈhɔː.tən/Received-Pronunciation/ˈhɔɹ.tən/General-American[ˈɡɔɹɾn̩]General-American[ˈɡɔɹʔn̩]General-American
  1. A town and locality in the Bundaberg Region, Queensland, Australia.

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  2. A township in Renfrew County, Ontario, Canada.

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  3. A number of places in England: A village and civil parish in Windsor and Maidenhead borough, Berkshire (OS grid ref TQ0175).

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  4. A number of places in England: A hamlet in Ivinghoe civil parish, Aylesbury Vale district, Buckinghamshire (OS grid ref SP9219).

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  5. 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.

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  6. A number of places in England: A village and civil parish in Dorset, previously in East Dorset district (OS grid ref SU0307).

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  7. A number of places in England: A village and civil parish in South Gloucestershire district, Gloucestershire (OS grid ref ST7584).

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  8. A number of places in England: A village and civil parish in Ribble Valley district, Lancashire (OS grid ref SD8550).

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  9. A number of places in England: A village in Hackleton parish, West Northamptonshire, Northamptonshire, previously in South Northamptonshire district (OS grid ref SP8254).

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  10. 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).

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  11. A number of places in England: Two settlements, East Horton and West Horton, in Chatton parish, Northumberland (OS grid ref NU0230).

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  12. A number of places in England: A hamlet and manor in Wem Rural civil parish, Shropshire.

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  13. A number of places in England: A village and civil parish in Somerset, previously in South Somerset district (OS grid ref ST3214).

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  14. A number of places in England: A small village and civil parish in Staffordshire Moorlands district, Staffordshire (OS grid ref SJ9457).

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  15. A number of places in England: A hamlet in Bishops Cannings civil parish, Wiltshire (OS grid ref SU0463).

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  16. A small village in Penrice community, southern Gower peninsula, Swansea, Wales (OS grid ref SS4785).

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  17. A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Marshall County, Alabama.

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  18. A number of places in the United States: A ghost town in Inyo County, California.

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  19. A number of places in the United States: A small city in Brown County, Kansas.

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  20. A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Hubbard County, Minnesota.

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  21. A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Howell County, Missouri.

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  22. A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Vernon County, Missouri.

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  23. A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Lane County, Oregon.

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  24. A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Randolph County, West Virginia.

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  25. A habitational surname from Old English.

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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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