Foxton

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English

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Etymology

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From Old English fox (fox) + either tūn (enclosure; settlement, town) or denu (valley).

Proper noun

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Foxton (countable and uncountable, plural Foxtons)

  1. (uncountable) A placename:
    1. A place in England:
      1. A village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire (OS grid ref TL4148). [1]
      2. A small village in Sedgefield parish, County Durham (OS grid ref NZ3624).
      3. A village and civil parish in Harborough district, Leicestershire (OS grid ref SP7090). [2]
      4. A hamlet in Thimbleby parish, North Yorkshire, previously in Hambleton district (OS grid ref SE4296). [3]
    2. A town in the Manawatu-Wanganui region of New Zealand. [4]
    3. An unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Colorado, United States.
  2. (countable) A habitational surname from Old English.

Statistics

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  • According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Foxton is the 7215th most common surname in England, belonging to 911 individuals.

References

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