Horton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɔː.tən/
ipa: /ˈhɔɹ.tən/
ipa: [ˈɡɔɹɾn̩]
ipa: [ˈɡɔɹʔn̩]
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)tən
Forms: form: Hortons
Etymology: The majority of the English toponyms derive from Old English horh (“mud, slime”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement”). The village in Gloucestershire derives from Old English heorot (“stag, hart”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement”)
Senses: glosses: A town and locality in the Bundaberg Region, Queensland, Australia.
glosses: A township in Renfrew County, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: A number of places in England:
A village and civil parish in Windsor and Maidenhead borough, Berkshire (OS grid ref TQ0175).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A hamlet in Ivinghoe civil parish, Aylesbury Vale district, Buckinghamshire (OS grid ref SP9219).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A former civil parish, in full, Horton by Malpas, now in Shocklach Oviatt and District civil parish, Cheshire West and Chester borough, Cheshire (OS grid ref SJ4549); the local hamlet is Horton Green.
glosses: A number of places in England:
A village and civil parish in East Dorset district, Dorset (OS grid ref SU0307).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A village and civil parish in South Gloucestershire district, Gloucestershire (OS grid ref ST7584).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A village and civil parish in Ribble Valley district, Lancashire (OS grid ref SD8550).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A village in Hackleton parish, South Northamptonshire district, Northamptonshire (OS grid ref SP8254).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A village and former civil parish in the former borough of Blyth Valley borough, Northumberland (OS grid ref NZ285815).
glosses: A number of places in England:
Two settlements, East Horton and West Horton, in Chatton parish, Northumberland (OS grid ref NU0230).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A hamlet and manor in Wem Rural civil parish, Shropshire.
glosses: A number of places in England:
A village and civil parish in South Somerset district, Somerset (OS grid ref ST3214).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A small village and civil parish in Staffordshire Moorlands district, Staffordshire (OS grid ref SJ9457).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A hamlet in Bishops Cannings civil parish, Wiltshire (OS grid ref SU0463).
glosses: A small village in Penrice community, southern Gower peninsula, Swansea, Wales (OS grid ref SS4785).
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Marshall County, Alabama.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A ghost town in Inyo County, California.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A small city in Brown County, Kansas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Hubbard County, Minnesota.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Howell County, Missouri.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Vernon County, Missouri.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Lane County, Oregon.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Randolph County, West Virginia.
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Derived terms: Great Horton
Horton Green
Horton in Ribblesdale
Horton Kirby
Horton's syndrome
Hortonville
Monks Horton
Tim Hortons