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Survey of English Place-Names

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Foxstone Wood

Other OS name in the Parish of Eckington

Historical Forms

  • Foxdon woode 1570 ExchKR

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) , Foxdon woode 1570ExchKR , apparently ' foxhill ' , v. fox , dūn , though it is rather on a hill - slope than on a hill itself .