Foxton
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old English fox (“fox”) + either tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”) or denu (“valley”).
Proper noun[edit]
Foxton (countable and uncountable, plural Foxtons)
- (uncountable) A placename:
- A village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL4148).
- A small village south of Sedgefield, County Durham, England (OS grid ref NZ3624).
- A village and civil parish in Harborough district, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SP7090).
- A town in the Manawatu-Wanganui region of New Zealand.
- An unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Colorado, United States.
- (countable) A habitational surname from Old English.
Statistics[edit]
- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Foxton is the 7215th most common surname in England, belonging to 911 individuals.
Further reading[edit]
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Foxton”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 595.
- Forebears
Categories:
- English terms derived from Old English
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Villages in Cambridgeshire, England
- en:Villages in England
- en:Civil parishes of England
- en:Places in Cambridgeshire, England
- en:Places in England
- en:Villages in County Durham, England
- en:Places in County Durham, England
- en:Villages in Leicestershire, England
- en:Places in Leicestershire, England
- en:Towns in New Zealand
- en:Places in New Zealand
- en:Unincorporated communities in Colorado, USA
- en:Unincorporated communities in the United States
- en:Places in Colorado, USA
- en:Places in the United States
- English surnames
- English surnames from Old English