English Explanatory Dictionary

Loxton

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A placename:
  2. A village and civil parish in North Somerset district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST3755).
  3. A town in the Northern Cape province, South Africa.
  4. A town in the Riverland region, South Australia.
  5. A habitational surname from Old English.

Word forms

Loxton Loxtons

Etymology

Recorded as Lochestone in the Domesday Book, the village takes its name from the Lox Yeo River + Old English tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

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