Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Foxedene c.1170 RD

• foxden 1185×95 Scam c.1300 Ct

• foxdene 1282 ib

• Foxden late13thetfreqto1375 GD 1366etfreqto1633×4 IPM 1407 AD

• Foxdene c.1304 GD 1343 GD

• foxden' 1348 Spec 1382 Hatf

• ffoxdene 1366,1375 GD

• foxton' 1211 Pipe

• ffoxstone 1551 GD

• Foxton 1559×63 IPM 1693 Bran 1722 HC/CB70Series2

• foxton 1721 ib

• Foxton alias Foxten 1620 IPM

• ffoxtene 1501 GD

• Foxten 1633×4 IPM

• Foxetune 1086 PNCa 83

Etymology

'Foxes' valley', OE  fox, genitive pl. foxa , + denu . Identical with Foxton Northumberland NT 9705, Foxden 1324, Foxton 1538 NbDu 89, but different from Foxton Cambridgeshire TL 4148, Foxetune 1086 PNCa 83, Leicestershire SP 7089, Fox (es )tone 1086 and North Yorkshire, Foxtun (e ), Foxton (a ) 1088 etc. PNYN 215.