Horton

Meanings

1. A town and locality in the Bundaberg Region, Queensland, Australia.
2. A township in Renfrew County, Ontario, Canada.
3. A number of places in England:
4. A village and civil parish in Windsor and Maidenhead borough, Berkshire (OS grid ref TQ0175).
5. A hamlet in Ivinghoe civil parish, Aylesbury Vale district, Buckinghamshire (OS grid ref SP9219).
6. 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.
7. A village and civil parish in Dorset, previously in East Dorset district (OS grid ref SU0307).
8. A village and civil parish in South Gloucestershire district, Gloucestershire (OS grid ref ST7584).
9. A village and civil parish in Ribble Valley district, Lancashire (OS grid ref SD8550).
10. A village in Hackleton parish, West Northamptonshire, Northamptonshire, previously in South Northamptonshire district (OS grid ref SP8254).
11. A rural locality and former civil parish, now in Blyth parish, Northumberland, formerly in Blyth Valley borough (OS grid ref NZ2779).
12. Two settlements, East Horton and West Horton, in Chatton parish, Northumberland (OS grid ref NU0230).

Etymology

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”)