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Foxton may refer to: Places ;New Zealand * Foxton, New Zealand, in the North Island ** Foxton Fizz, soft drink * Foxton (New Zealand electorate), a former parliamentary electorate, 1881–1890 * Foxton Beach, North Island ;United Kingdom * Foxton, Cambridgeshire, England * Foxton, County Durham, England * Foxton, Leicestershire, England * Foxton, North Yorkshire, England * Foxton Locks, on the Grand Union Canal, in Leicestershire, England ;United States * Foxton, Colorado People * Bruce Foxton (born 1955), British musician * David Foxton (born 1965), British judge * John Foxton (1769–1829), British hangman * Justin Foxton (1849–1916), Australian politician * Richard Foxton (died 1649), British MP See also *Foxtons Foxtons Group plc is a British estate agency company dealing with both lettings and sales. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange. History Foxtons was founded by Jon Hunt in 1981 in Notting Hill, London, as a two-person estate agency. 200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foxton, New Zealand
Foxton ( mi, Te Awahou) is a town in the Manawatū-Whanganui region of New Zealand - on the lower west coast of the North Island, in the Horowhenua district, southwest of Palmerston North and just north of Levin. The town is located close to the banks of the Manawatu River. It is situated on State Highway 1, roughly in the middle between Tongariro National Park and Wellington. The slightly smaller coastal settlement of Foxton Beach is considered part of Foxton, and is located to the west, on the Tasman Sea coastline. The population was as of Foxton has preserved its heritage - both Maori and Pakeha - through its parks, heritage buildings and four museums. The Manawatu River Loop and estuary creates an environment that features walkways and Ramsar wetlands with 93 species of birds. Changing identity The 50 or so flax mills that once operated in Foxton's vicinity slowly disappeared before WWII, while the Feltex carpet factory closed in 2008, causing unemployment. What ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foxton Fizz
Foxton Fizz is the name of a soda drink produced in Foxton, New Zealand. Background Back when there were over 230 independent soda factories across New Zealand, most small towns made their own local soda. So, the Foxton Fizz factory started up its machines in 1918, bringing their fizz to Foxton. Foxton Fizz is years old and one of the last independent soda companies in New Zealand. For an entire century, it has operated from the Foxton Fizz factory on 8 Whyte Street and delivering their fizz around New Zealand in their now iconic wooden crates. What started as a local drink soon became a familiar offering in lunch bars and hotels, and a staple at family gatherings and celebrations. The business began to decline after Coca-Cola began pushing their product into regional New Zealand. One initiative to try and counter the entry of Coca-Cola was offering a home drop service where customers would get a crate of bottles and then leave the empties out to be swapped for freshly-filled F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foxton (New Zealand Electorate)
Foxton is a former parliamentary electorate in the Manawatū-Whanganui and Wellington regions of New Zealand, from 1881 to 1890. Population centres The previous electoral redistribution was undertaken in 1875 for the 1875–1876 election. In the six years since, New Zealand's European population had increased by 65%. In the 1881 electoral redistribution, the House of Representatives increased the number of European representatives to 91 (up from 84 since the 1875–76 election). The number of Māori electorates was held at four. The House further decided that electorates should not have more than one representative, which led to 35 new electorates being formed, including Foxton, and two electorates that had previously been abolished to be recreated. This necessitated a major disruption to existing boundaries. History The Foxton electorate was established for the . The election was contested by James Wilson, Charles Beard Izard, Walter Buller, George Warren Russell, Alfred New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foxton Beach
Foxton Beach is a small settlement in the Horowhenua District of the Manawatū-Whanganui region of New Zealand's North Island. It is located on the South Taranaki Bight at the mouth of the Manawatu River, 35 kilometres southwest of Palmerston North, and six kilometres west of Foxton. Foxton Beach has a permanent population of around 2000 people. The town is a popular holiday destination due mainly to its beach and the bird sanctuary at the Manawatu Estuary. Most of Foxton Beach is made up of holiday homes. History Te Wharangi was a large Māori settlement at the location and a riverside fishing station where canoes could be tied up. European settlement began in the 1840s, when it became a staging point for horsedrawn travel along the coast between Wellington and Whanganui. It later became a centre for export of flax and timber by steamer. Demographics Foxton Beach is defined by Statistics New Zealand as a small urban area and covers . It had an estimated population of as of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foxton, Cambridgeshire
Foxton is a small village in South Cambridgeshire, England. It has a number of well-preserved fifteenth- and sixteenth-century houses, and a thirteenth-century church dedicated to St Laurence. History The parish has been occupied for at least 2000 years; in the first century A.D. a Belgic settlement appeared, closely followed by a Romano-British farmstead near Hoffer bridge. A pagan English cemetery has also been found just north of the railway station. The parish itself was formed over the medieval period and is bounded on the north by the River Cam and on the north-east and southwest by the Hoffer and Shepreth brooks. Its south-east boundary follows an ancient road that runs north-east from Fowlmere, known as the Mareway from the 14th century (now the B1368), and further west by an earthwork known as Grim's ditch or Thriplow bank. Known as ''Foxetune'' at the time of the Domesday Book in 1086, the village's name means "farmstead where foxes are seen". The theologian Willia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foxton, County Durham
Foxton is a small village in County Durham, England. It is situated to the north-west of Stockton-on-Tees, near Stillington. The origin of the place-name is from the Old English Old English (, ), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages. It was brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the mid-5th c ... words ''fox'' and ''denu'' meaning valley frequented by foxes. The place-name appeared as ''Foxedene'' in c. 1170. References External links Villages in County Durham Sedgefield {{Durham-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foxton, Leicestershire
Foxton is a village and civil parish in the Harborough district, in the county of Leicestershire, England, to the north-west of Market Harborough. The village is on the Grand Union Canal and is a short walk to the site of the Foxton Locks and Foxton Inclined Plane. Swingbridge Street still has a working swing bridge that allows people and vehicles to pass over the canal, which can be opened to allow canal boats to pass. There are two public houses in the village, a village hall, and a primary school. Foxton is serviced by Market Harborough train station which is approximately 3 miles away. London and Birmingham can each be reached by train in approximately 50 minutes. History The village has previously been known as Foxestone and Foxtone. It is believed to have developed these names from the large number of foxes which inhabited the area. Foxton was originally a hill-top settlement, thought to have been founded in Saxon times with a landscape fashioned in the ice-age. The v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foxton Locks
Foxton Locks () are ten canal locks consisting of two "staircases" each of five locks, located on the Leicester line of the Grand Union Canal about west of the Leicestershire town of Market Harborough. They are named after the nearby village of Foxton. They form the northern terminus of a summit level that passes Husbands Bosworth, Crick and ends with the Watford flight Alongside the locks is the site of the Foxton Inclined Plane, built in 1900 to resolve the operational restrictions imposed by the lock flight. It was not a commercial success and only remained in full-time operation for ten years. It was dismantled in 1926, but a project to re-create it commenced in the 2000s, since the locks remain a bottleneck for boat traffic. Description Staircase locks are used where a canal needs to climb a steep hill, and consist of a group of locks where each lock opens directly into the next, that is, where the bottom gates of one lock form the top gates of the next. Foxton Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foxton, Colorado
Foxton is an unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Colorado, United States. The U.S. Post Office The United States Postal Service (USPS), also known as the Post Office, U.S. Mail, or Postal Service, is an Independent agencies of the United States government, independent agency of the executive branch of the Federal government of the Uni ... at Conifer ( ZIP Code 80433) now serves Foxton postal addresses. Geography Foxton is located at (39.4244333, -105.2361032). References {{authority control Unincorporated communities in Jefferson County, Colorado Unincorporated communities in Colorado Denver metropolitan area ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce Foxton
Bruce Douglas Foxton (born 1 September 1955) is an English singer, songwriter and musician. Foxton's music career spans more than 40 years. He came to prominence in the late 1970s as bassist and backing vocalist of mod revival band the Jam. He occasionally performed the lead vocals, such as on the songs " News of the World", " David Watts" and "Smithers-Jones". After the band's break-up, he pursued a brief solo career releasing one studio album, '' Touch Sensitive'', in 1984. The album's single "Freak" became a UK Top 20 hit in 1983. He played in several bands, including Sharp with former Jam member Rick Buckler, before joining Stiff Little Fingers in 1990. After leaving SLF in 2007, Foxton officially joined Rick Buckler and members of his tribute band, The Gift, to tour under the name From the Jam. Early life and education Bruce Douglas Foxton was born the youngest of three boys on 1 September 1955, in Woking, Surrey, England, to parents Henry and Helen. He grew up at 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Foxton
Sir David Andrew Foxton (born 14 October 1965) is a British High Court judge. Education Foxton was educated at Glasgow Academy. He took a first-class BA in jurisprudence and BCL from Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1986 and 1987 respectively. He was an Eldon Scholar in 1989 and completed a PhD at King's College London in 2001. Career He was called to the bar at Gray's Inn in 1989. He established a practice in commercial law, based at Essex Court Chambers from 1989 to 2020. He took silk in 2006. In addition to practice, he wrote several books. He was editor, with Sir Bernard Eder, of '' Scrutton on Charterparties and Bills of Lading'' from 2008 to 2015. He wrote ''Revolutionary Lawyers: Sinn Fein and Crown Courts in Britain and Ireland 1916–1923'' in 2008 and ''The Life of T. E. Scrutton'', concerning the former Lord Justice of Appeal Thomas Edward Scrutton, in 2013. He has been a visiting professor of law at the University of Nottingham since 2007. He was appointe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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