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Laxton and Moorhouse

Laxton and Moorhouse

Civil parish in England

Laxton and Moorhouse is a civil parish in the Newark and Sherwood district, within the county of Nottinghamshire, England.

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It consists of two settlements:

  • A village, Laxton
  • A hamlet, Moorhouse.

The parish was previously known as Laxton until 1990 when Moorhouse was included in the title.[1]

Laxton

Main article: Laxton, Nottinghamshire

Laxton is best known for having the last remaining working open-field system in the United Kingdom. Its name is recorded first in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Laxintone, and may come from Anglo-Saxon Leaxingatūn, meaning the 'farmstead or estate of the people of a man called Leaxa'. It is possibly the namesake of the town of Lexington, Massachusetts, and thus ultimately of all the other towns named Lexington in the United States.[2]

Moorhouse

Main article: Moorhouse, Nottinghamshire

This is 2 miles east of Laxton, Predominantly, it is a scattering of farms, farmhouses and cottages amongst a wider rural setting. These are grouped around three roads meeting by a single junction: Green Lane, Moorhouse Lane, and Ossington Lane.

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References

  1. [1]
    "LGBCE | Nottinghamshire | LGBCE Site". www.lgbce.org.uk. Retrieved 10 November 2020.
  2. [2]
    Gannett, Henry (1905). The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 186.


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