Foxton

== English == === Etymology === From Old English fox (“fox”) + either tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”) or denu (“valley”). === Proper noun === 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). 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). A hamlet in Thimbleby parish, North Yorkshire, previously in Hambleton district (OS grid ref SE4296). A town in Manawatū-Whanganui, New Zealand. An unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Colorado, United States. (countable) A habitational surname from Old English. ==== Statistics ==== According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Foxton is the 7215th 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