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 place in England:
- A village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire (OS grid ref TL4148). [1]
- A small village in Sedgefield parish, County Durham (OS grid ref NZ3624).
- A village and civil parish in Harborough district, Leicestershire (OS grid ref SP7090). [2]
- A hamlet in Thimbleby parish, North Yorkshire, previously in Hambleton district (OS grid ref SE4296). [3]
- A town in the Manawatu-Wanganui region of New Zealand. [4]
- An unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Colorado, United States.
- A place in England:
- (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.
References
[edit]- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Foxton”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: 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:Places in England
- en:Villages in Cambridgeshire, England
- en:Villages in England
- en:Civil parishes of England
- en:Places in Cambridgeshire, England
- en:Villages in County Durham, England
- en:Places in County Durham, England
- en:Villages in Leicestershire, England
- en:Places in Leicestershire, England
- en:Villages in North Yorkshire, England
- en:Places in North Yorkshire, 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