Etymology

Foxton

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Today it means: A village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire (OS grid ref TL4148). Full definition →

Old English fox
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The story

  1. Old English · derived fromfox“fox”
  2. English todayFoxton

From Old English fox (“fox”) + either tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”) or denu (“valley”).

Words from the same roots

Old Englishfox all →

foxFoxley

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