Foxton

English

Etymology

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

Proper noun

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).
      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).
      4. A hamlet in Thimbleby parish, North Yorkshire, previously in Hambleton district (OS grid ref SE4296).
   2. A town in the Manawatu-Wanganui region of New Zealand.
   3. An unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Colorado, United States.
2. (countable) A habitational surname from Old English.

Statistics

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

References

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Foxton”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 595.
• Forebears