Exton
Major Settlement in the Parish of Exton
Historical Forms
- Exentune 1086 DB
- Exton(e) 1107 Reg 1185,1192 P 1207 1610 Speed
- Exston 1326,1330 Pat 1535 VE
Etymology
Probably 'the ox farm', v. oxa , tūn . Ekwall DEPN suggests that the first element is a secondary genitive plural form *exna (influenced by the nominative plural exen ) of the regular gen.pl. oxna .
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
Other OS name
- Ash Plantation
- Little Exton
- Stone Pit
- West End
- the Willows
- Yew Tree Ho
- Brook Fm
- Burley Bushes
- Cocked Hat Spinney
- Cuckoo Fm
- Cuckoo Spinney
- Exton Church
- Exton Hall
- Exton Park
- the Firs
- Fox and Hounds P.H.
- Fox Bridge
- the Grange
- the Green
- Hall Fm
- Hawkswell Spinney, Hawkswell Spring
- Highmoor Fm
- Horn Mill
- Mill Dam
- New Field Road
- New Garden Spinney
- Old Hall
- Pudding Bag End
- Pudding Bag Lane
- Rattling Jack Spinney
- the Rectory
- Robin Hood's Cave
- Rushpit Wood
- Top Lodge
- Keeper's Cottage
- Stamford End
- Blacksmiths Lane
- Ry Gate Plantation
- Tyler's Corner