English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Foxes Lane

Other OS name in the Parish of Tuxford

Historical Forms

  • Foxitt, Foxet Side 1759 NJ

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) . Cf. Fox sick ib. ( i.e. sike ) , Foxitt , Foxet Side 1759NJ , with common confusion of final k and t .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Major Settlement