Saxinton
Early-attested site in the Parish of Bucknell
Historical Forms
- Sexintone 1086 DB 1447 Blo
- Sexigton' 1278–9 RH
- Saxinton 1378 Cl
Etymology
Saxinton (lost) is Sexintone (bis) 1086 DBet freq with variant spellings Sexinton ', Sexinton to 1447 Blo, Sexigton '1278–9 RH, Saxinton 1378 Cl. Cf. Sexig broc 995 (c. 1250) KCD 1289, on the eastern side of the bounds of Ardley. 'Seaxa 's farm,' v. ingtūn . The river-name in KCD 1289 looks like an early back formation from the name of the tūn . The village was no longer in existence in 1695, when Kennett (vol. i, 55) speaks of “Saxenton in the parish of Bucknell where the foundations of building do more especially appear in a ground called the Ball-yards.” John Dunkin, Hist. and Antiqs . of the Hundreds of Bullington and Ploughley , i, 202, writes in 1823 “At a short distance from Bucknell Ch, partly within the precincts of a copse or wood, and partly on either side of a road leading to the same, are numerous foundations of houses, which once constituted the village of Saxenton.”