Horton may refer to:

Places

Antarctica

Horton Glacier Horton Glacier () is a glacier at the east side of Mount Barre and Mount Gaudry, flowing southeast from Adelaide Island into Ryder Bay, Antarctica. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1977 for Colin P. Horton, a British A ...

, Adelaide Island, Antarctica *

Horton Ledge Horton Ledge () is a flat rock ledge that caps the southwestern extremity of Pecora Escarpment, at the southwest end of the Pensacola Mountains in Antarctica. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos ...

, Queen Elizabeth Land, Antarctica

Australia

Horton, Queensland Horton is a rural town and locality in the Bundaberg Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Horton had a population of 158 people. Geography The Bruce Highway forms the southern boundary of the locality. History The town w ...

, a town and locality in the Bundaberg Region *

Horton River (Australia) The Horton River, a perennial stream of the Barwon catchment within the Murray–Darling basin, is located in the Northern Tablelands and North West Slopes districts of New South Wales, Australia. Course and features The river rises on the n ...

, in northern New South Wales

Canada

Horton, Ontario Horton is a township in eastern Ontario, Canada, at the confluence of the Bonnechere River and the Ottawa River in Renfrew County. The Town of Renfrew was originally part of Horton Township. Communities The township comprises the communities ...

, a township *

Horton River (Canada) The Horton River is a river in Inuvik and Sahtu Regions, Northwest Territories and Kitikmeot Region, Nunavut, Canada. It is a tributary of the Beaufort Sea and hence part of the Arctic Ocean drainage basin. Only the first few kilometres from its ...

, a tributary of the Beaufort Sea * Horton Township, Nova Scotia, an 18th-century township; see

Wolfville Wolfville is a Canadian town in the Annapolis Valley, Kings County, Nova Scotia, located about northwest of the provincial capital, Halifax. The town is home to Acadia University and Landmark East School. The town is a tourist destination du ...

United Kingdom

* Horton Beach, Port Eynon Bay, Wales *

Horton, Berkshire Horton is a village and civil parishes in England, civil parish in Berkshire, England. It is between Windsor, Berkshire, Windsor and Staines-upon-Thames. History and etymology The village name is a common one in England. It is Old English in or ...

, a village and civil parish *

Horton, Buckinghamshire Horton is a hamlet (place), hamlet in the parish of Ivinghoe, in Buckinghamshire, England. It is in the civil parish of Slapton, Buckinghamshire, Slapton. The name ''Horton (disambiguation), Horton'' is a common one in England. It derives fro ...

, a hamlet of Ivinghoe * Horton or Horton by Malpas, Cheshire, a village and former civil parish *

Horton, Dorset Horton is a village in East Dorset, England, situated on the boundary between the chalk downland of Cranborne Chase and the Dorset Heaths, and ten miles north of Poole. The village has a population of 515 (United Kingdom Census 2001, 2001). Ov ...

, a village and civil parish **

Horton Priory Horton Priory was a priory at Horton in Dorset, England. It was founded as a Benedictine abbey around 970 by Ordgar, Earl of Devon, or his son, Ordulph, and dedicated to Saint Olfrida, Wilfrida or Wulfthryth, the mother of Saint Edith of Wilt ...

, its ruined religious house upon which the parish church was built *

Horton, Gloucestershire Horton is a village on the Cotswold Edge, in Gloucestershire, England. It is about north of Chipping Sodbury. The nearest settlement is Little Sodbury, about away; Hawkesbury Upton and Dunkirk are both miles away. It is a linear settlement ...

, a village *

Horton, Lancashire Horton, historically known as Horton-in-Craven, is a village and a civil parish in the Ribble Valley district of the English county of Lancashire (historically in the West Riding of Yorkshire). Population details are now included in the civil p ...

, a village and civil parish *

Horton, Northamptonshire Horton is a village in Northamptonshire, England. The village manor, Horton Hall, now demolished, was home to the first governor of the Bank of England and William Parr, 1st Baron Parr of Horton. An outline of its former nucleus can be seen in ...

, a village *

Horton, Blyth Horton is a former civil parish, now in the parish of Blyth, in Northumberland, England, about west of Blyth, and south of the River Blyth. Historically a chapelry of Woodhorn, it became part of Blyth Urban District in 1912, and in 1920 it w ...

, Northumberland, a village *

Horton, Chatton Horton is a pair of small settlements, West Horton and East Horton, divided by a stream - the Horton Burn - in Northumberland, England north east of Wooler and west of Belford. It is first attested as ''Horton' (Turbervill)'' ('Horton held ...

, a pair of small settlements: West Horton and East Horton, Northumberland * Horton, Hadley, a

location In geography, location or place are used to denote a region (point, line, or area) on Earth's surface or elsewhere. The term ''location'' generally implies a higher degree of certainty than ''place'', the latter often indicating an entity with an ...

in Shropshire * Horton, Wem, a

in Shropshire *

Horton, Somerset Horton is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, situated north of Chard in the South Somerset district. The village has a population of 812. History It is first attested as ''Horton'' in 1242. The place-name ''Horton'' is a common ...

, a village and civil parish *

Horton, Staffordshire Horton is a village and civil parish in the English county of Staffordshire. The population of the civil parish as taken at the 2011 census was 781. It is situated about 3 miles (5 km) W of Leek. It is first attested as ''Horten(e)'' in 1 ...

, a village and civil parish *

Horton, Swansea The Gower Peninsula ( cy, Gŵyr) in the City and County of Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom is an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. It contains over twenty villages and communities. Villages Bishopston Bishopston (, or historically ''Llanme ...

, a village *

Horton, Wiltshire Bishops Cannings is a village and civil parish in the Vale of Pewsey in Wiltshire, England, north-east of Devizes. The parish includes the village of Coate (not to be confused with Coate, Swindon) and the hamlets of Bourton, Horton and Little Ho ...

, a hamlet/locality in Bishops Cannings *

Great Horton Great Horton is a ward of the City of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, with a population of 17,683 at the 2011 Census. Great Horton is west of Bradford and east of the village of Clayton and also includes Scholemore, Paradise Green, Lidget ...

, Bradford, West Yorkshire *

Horton, Surrey Horton is a semi-rural area with a village centre in the west of the borough of Epsom and Ewell, in the English county of Surrey. It is situated between the settlements of Epsom, West Ewell, Chessington and Malden Rushett. It's principal road is ...

, a semi-rural area in the west of Epsom, Surrey **

Horton Country Park Horton Country Park is a Local Nature Reserve north-west of Epsom in Surrey. It is owned and managed by Epsom and Ewell Borough Council. The park is a wooded recreation and amenities area occupying the east of a narrow upland watershed betwe ...

, a local nature reserve *

Horton in Ribblesdale Horton in Ribblesdale is a small village and civil parish in the Craven district of North Yorkshire, England. It is situated in Ribblesdale on the Settle–Carlisle Railway to the west of Pen-y-ghent. Its population in the 2001 census ...

, North Yorkshire *

Horton Park, Bradford Horton Park is a public park in Bradford, England, located to the west of the city in Great Horton Great Horton is a ward of the City of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, with a population of 17,683 at the 2011 Census. Great Horton is w ...

, West Yorkshire, a public park *

Horton-cum-Studley Horton-cum-Studley is a village and civil parish in Oxfordshire about northeast of the centre of Oxford and bordering Otmoor, and is one of the "Seven Towns" of Otmoor. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 455. A majority of res ...

, Oxfordshire, near Oakley, Buckinghamshire *

Little Horton Little Horton (population 17,368 - 2001 UK census) is a ward in the City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council in the county of West Yorkshire, England, named after the de Horton family, who were once Lords of the Manor. The population at ...

, Bradford, West Yorkshire

United States

* Horton, Alabama, an unincorporated town * Horton, Howell County, Missouri, an unincorporated community *

Horton, Kansas Horton is a city in Brown County, Kansas, Brown County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population of the city was 1,523. History Horton was founded in 1886. It was named for Albert H. Horton, chief ...

, a city * Horton, Minnesota, an unincorporated community * Horton, Oregon, an unincorporated community *

Horton, Vernon County, Missouri Horton is an unincorporated area, unincorporated community in northern Vernon County, Missouri, Vernon County, Missouri, United States. It is located on U.S. Route 71 in Missouri, U.S. 71, approximately eight miles north of Nevada, Missouri, Neva ...

, an unincorporated community *

Horton, Iowa Horton is an unincorporated community in Polk Township in Bremer County, Iowa, United States. Geography Horton lies at the junction of Iowa Highway 188 and County Road V14. It is three miles east of Plainfield. History Horton was plat ...

, an unincorporated community *

Horton, West Virginia Horton is an unincorporated community in Randolph County, West Virginia West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian, Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States.The Census Bureau and the Association of American Geographer ...

, an unincorporated community * Horton Creek (Arizona) *

Horton Park (Saint Paul, Minnesota) Horton Park is a small arboretum in Saint Paul, Minnesota Saint Paul (abbreviated St. Paul) is the capital of the U.S. state of Minnesota and the county seat of Ramsey County. Situated on high bluffs overlooking a bend in the Mississipp ...

, a small arboretum *

Horton Peak Horton Peak at above sea level is a peak in the White Cloud Mountains of Idaho. The peak is located in Sawtooth National Recreation Area in Custer County. Horton Peak rises above the southeastern end of the Sawtooth Valley west of the Sawtooth ...

, White Cloud Mountains, Idaho * Horton Town, Missouri, an unincorporated community in Washington County *

Horton Township (disambiguation) Horton Township may refer to: In Canada * Horton Township, Nova Scotia In the United States * Horton Township, Osceola County, Iowa * Horton Township, Michigan * Horton Township, Stevens County, Minnesota * Horton Township, Elk County, Pennsyl ...

Elsewhere

* 21527 Horton, an asteroid * Horton Plains, Sri Lanka, see

Horton Plains National Park Horton Plains National Park ( si, හෝර්ටන් තැන්න ජාතික උද්‍යානය, Hortan Thanna Jathika Udyanaya) is a national park in the central highlands of Sri Lanka that was designated in 1988. It is locate ...

People and fictional characters

Horton (given name) Horton is a masculine given name. People or fictional characters named Horton include: * Horton Foote (1916–2009), American playwright and screenwriter * Horton D. Haight (1832–1900), Mormon pioneer * Horton H. Hobbs, Jr. (1914–1994), Ameri ...

Horton (surname) Horton is an Anglo-Saxon surname, deriving from the common English place-name ''Horton''. It derives from Old English ''horu'' 'dirt' and ''tūn'' 'settlement, farm, estate', presumably meaning 'farm on muddy soil'. List of people surnamed Hort ...

Historic structures

* Horton Gristmill, Malone, New York, on the National Register of Historic Places *

Horton House Horton House (also known as Horton-duBignon House, Brewery Ruins, duBignon Cemetery) is a historic site on Riverview Drive in Jekyll Island, Georgia. The tabby house was originally constructed in 1743 by Major William Horton, a top military ai ...

, Jekyll Island, Georgia, on the US National Register of Historic Places

Hospitals

Horton General Hospital The Horton General Hospital is a National Health Service hospital located on the Oxford Road, in the Calthorpe ward of Banbury. It is managed by Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. History Pre-1948 The earliest part of the hospita ...

, a National Health Service-run hospital, Banbury, Oxfordshire, England *

Horton Hospital Horton Hospital formerly called Horton Asylum was a large psychiatric hospital in the Horton area of Epsom, Surrey. History Origins The hospital was designed for the London County Council by George Thomas Hine, consultant architect to the Com ...

, a large psychiatric hospital in Epsom, Surrey, England, which closed in 1997

Other uses

* Horton baronets, an extinct title in the Baronetage of Great Britain *

Horton Fieldhouse The Illinois State Redbirds are the athletic teams that represent Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois. Teams play at the NCAA Division I level ( FCS in football). The football team competes in the Missouri Valley Football Conference wh ...

, an indoor athletics facility on the campus of Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois *

Horton Light Railway The Horton Light Railway had its origins in a contractor's line (the Ewell & Long Grove Railway) built in 1905 to transport building materials, coal and other supplies for London County Council's Epsom Cluster of psychiatric hospitals in the Hort ...

, Surrey, England

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