English Explanatory Dictionary

Foxton

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A placename:
  2. A place in England:
  3. A village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire (OS grid ref TL4148).
  4. A small village in Sedgefield parish, County Durham (OS grid ref NZ3624).
  5. A village and civil parish in Harborough district, Leicestershire (OS grid ref SP7090).
  6. A hamlet in Thimbleby parish, North Yorkshire, previously in Hambleton district (OS grid ref SE4296).
  7. A town in Manawatū-Whanganui, New Zealand.
  8. An unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Colorado, United States.
  9. A habitational surname from Old English.

Word forms

Foxton Foxtons

Etymology

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

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