Foxton
Major Settlement in the Parish of Foxton
Historical Forms
- Foxtone 1086 DB Wm2,e.12 Dugd 1109 Nichols
- Foxtune e.12 Dugd 1109 Nichols
- Foxtunia c.1147 BM
- Foxtun' 1160(p),1180 P
- Foxton 1109 Nichols 1174 P
- Foxon 1674,1679,c.1690 Terrier
- Foxestone 1086 DB
Etymology
Most probably 'the farmstead, village where foxes are frequently seen', v. fox , tūn . Note the tell-tale Foxborough in f.ns. (a) infra . The unique DB form Foxestone with its genitival construction hardly points to an unrecorded pers.n. Fox in the possessive case as the specific, although Toue fox (1154 × 89) of Saleby in Lincs. (with ODan Tovi , ON Tófi ) indicates that fox was used as a by-name from at least the middle of the 12th cent.
Places in the same Parish
Other OS name
Field
- Two Acres Five Acres Twenty - four Acres
- Allotment Fd
- The Big Fd
- Blacklands Second Breaklands ( sic )
- Bosworth Mdw
- Brook Cl
- Burn Dale
- ( The ) Canal Fd
- Charities Fd
- Chestnuts Paddock
- Church Cl formerly Church Hill Cl
- Corner Mdw
- Cottage Cl
- Cricket Fd
- The Dales
- Elbow Fd
- Far Fd
- Fishers Fd
- Five Acre Mdw
- First Flat Mdw
- Football Fd
- Foxborough Foxborough Mdw
- Foxton Mill
- Foxton Road Fd
- Garborow
- Great Cl
- Gutteridges
- Hall Cl Second Hall Leys
- Haynes Cl
- the Headlands
- Hill Cl
- Hills and Hollows
- Bottom Hogpit
- Big Hollows
- Home Fd
- Horse Cl
- Horstead Cl
- Hovel Fd
- Hut Cl
- Langton Fd
- Leicester Road Cl
- The Leys
- Little Fd
- Lock Mdw
- Long Mdw
- Lubenham Mdw
- The Meadow
- Middle Cl
- Mill Cl
- Bottom Monks
- Mud Tip
- New Fd
- New Hill
- Nuts Cl
- Old Brick Yard
- Old or Kate 's Cl
- The Orchard
- Paddock
- The Park
- Perkins Cl
- Plough Cl
- Ravens Cl
- Reeves Cl
- Road Cl
- Rookery Nook
- Rushy Mdw
- The Seeds Near Seeds Cl
- Shoemakers Cl
- Spoil Banks
- Stepbridge Fd
- Swan Furlong
- Ten Acre Meadow
- Great Top Cl
- Big Townsend
- Turnpike Cl
- Watering Cl
- Watery Baulk
- Weetmans
- Westgate Cl
- West Mdw
- Windmill Cl
- Wranglings
- the North feild alias Burrowgh feild
- the Common
- the East Fielde
- Galhou
- Robert Goodrich 's Land
- atte Grene
- Longcraft
- Lubnam mere
- the Westfeild alias Millfeild
- Nise
- the North Field
- Rosehadland
- Smalltoaftes
- the stone meadow
- Taslye
- the West Field
- Wilcroft
- Wynnedoole