Loxton

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Loxton

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Recorded as Lochestone in the Domesday Book, the village takes its name from the Lox Yeo River + Old English tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

proper noun Loxtons

countable, uncountable A village and civil parish in North Somerset district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST3755).
countable, uncountable A town in the Northern Cape province, South Africa.
countable, uncountable A town in the Riverland region, South Australia.
countable A habitational surname from Old English.

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@misc{loxton_2026,
  title = {Loxton},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/loxton},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}