Horton may refer to:
Places
Antarctica
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Horton Glacier, Adelaide Island, Antarctica
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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
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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
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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
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Horton, Ontario, a township
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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
United Kingdom
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Horton Beach, Port Eynon Bay, Wales
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Horton, Berkshire, a village and civil parish
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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
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Horton or Horton by Malpas, Cheshire, a village and former civil parish
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Horton, Chatton, a pair of small settlements: West Horton and East Horton, Northumberland
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Horton, Hadley, a
location in Shropshire
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Horton, Wem, a
location in Shropshire
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Horton, Somerset, a village and civil parish
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Horton, Staffordshire, a village and civil parish
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Horton, Swansea, a village
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Horton, Wiltshire, a hamlet/locality in Bishops Cannings
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Great Horton, Bradford, West Yorkshire
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Horton, Surrey, a semi-rural area in the west of Epsom, Surrey
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Horton Country Park, a local nature reserve
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Horton in Ribblesdale, North Yorkshire
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Horton Park, Bradford, West Yorkshire, a public park
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Horton-cum-Studley, Oxfordshire, near Oakley, Buckinghamshire
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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
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Horton, Alabama, an unincorporated town
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Horton, Howell County, Missouri, an unincorporated community
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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
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Horton, Minnesota, an unincorporated community
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Horton, Oregon
Horton is an unincorporated community in Lane County, Oregon, United States. It is about three miles northeast of Blachly, in the Lake Creek valley of the Central Oregon Coast Range .
In 1903, three brothers—E. J. Horton, Sam M. Horton, and J ...
, an unincorporated community
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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
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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
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, an unincorporated community
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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
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Horton Creek (Arizona)
Horton Creek is located in the Mogollon Rim area of the state of Arizona. The closest town Payson is away. The facilities are maintained by Tonto National Forest division of the USDA Forest Service.
Fish species
* Rainbow trout
* Brown ...
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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
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Horton Peak, White Cloud Mountains, Idaho
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Horton Town, Missouri, an unincorporated community in Washington County
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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
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21527 Horton, an asteroid
* Horton Plains, Sri Lanka, see
Horton Plains National Park
People and fictional characters
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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 ...
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Horton (surname)
Historic structures
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Horton Gristmill, Malone, New York, on the National Register of Historic Places
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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
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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
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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
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Horton baronets, an extinct title in the Baronetage of Great Britain
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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
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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
See also
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* Horton's syndrome, also known as
cluster headache
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Hawton
Hawton is an English village and civil parish in Nottinghamshire, about two miles (3.2 km) south of town of Newark-on-Trent, near the River Devon, a tributary of the River Trent. Its population was recorded as 147 in the 2011 Census.
H ...
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Hortonia (disambiguation)
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Hortonville (disambiguation)
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