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Drayton (surname) Drayton is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Military * Percival Drayton (1812–1865), United States Navy officer, son of US Congressman William Drayton of South Carolina * Thomas Drayton (1809–1899), American Civil War Confede ...

Legal cases

* '' United States v. Drayton'', 536 U.S. 194 (2002)

Places

Australia

Drayton, Queensland Drayton is a rural locality in the Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Drayton had a population of 1,710 people. Drayton is at the outer southwestern edge of Toowoomba. It was first substantial settlement on the Darling Downs, ini ...

, a locality in the Toowoomba Region * Shire of Drayton, a former local government area in Queensland

Canada

Drayton, Ontario Drayton is a community in Wellington County, Ontario, Canada. It is a part of the township of Mapleton. The village is on the corner of Wellington Road 8 and Wellington Road 11, geographically northwest of Fergus and southwest of Arthur. Histo ...

United Kingdom

Drayton, Hampshire Drayton is a residential area of the city of Portsmouth in the English county of Hampshire. Together with Farlington, its parent area, it makes up one of the electoral wards of the city. History The earliest mention of Drayton was as a manor ...

, a close suburb of Portsmouth *

Drayton, Leicestershire Drayton is a small village and Civil parishes in England, civil parish in the Harborough District, Harborough district of south-east Leicestershire, bordering Northamptonshire and Rutland. It is situated 6.7 miles (11 km) northeast of Mar ...

* Drayton, Norfolk, a satellite village of Norwich *

Drayton, Northamptonshire Drayton is a hamlet in England, in the county of Northamptonshire, in the parish of Daventry, from the centre, occupying mainly with suburban housing the lower-lying north western side of the town. Toponymy The name derives from the Old Engli ...

, a suburb of Daventry *

Drayton, Cherwell Drayton is a village and civil parish in the valley of the Sor Brook in Oxfordshire, about northwest of Banbury. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 242. Early history Tesselated tiles and Roman coins found near the parish ch ...

, Oxfordshire, a satellite village of Banbury * Drayton, Vale of White Horse, Oxfordshire, a satellite village of Abingdon *

Drayton St. Leonard Drayton St. Leonard is a village and civil parish on the River Thame in Oxfordshire, about southeast of Oxford. Manor The Domesday Book of 1086 does not list Drayton separately. At that time the land was part of the Bishop of Lincoln's estate ...

, Oxfordshire, locally abbreviated sometimes to Drayton *

Drayton, Somerset Drayton is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, focussed less than a mile from Curry Rivel and five miles southwest of Somerton in the South Somerset district. It adjoins the River Isle, near its confluence with the Parrett, and the f ...

Drayton Beauchamp Drayton Beauchamp (pronounced 'Beecham') is a village and civil parish within Aylesbury Vale district in Buckinghamshire, England. It is in the east of the county bordering Hertfordshire, about six miles from Aylesbury and two miles from Tring. ...

, Buckinghamshire *Drayton, a former hamlet, later known as Drayton Green, now part of West Ealing, Greater London ** Drayton Green railway station ** Drayton Manor High School * Drayton, the south-east of the parish of Swineshead, Lincolnshire * Drayton, a reduced, much renamed and subdivided estate of

Barton Stacey Barton Stacey is a village and undulating civil parish, which includes the hamlets of Bransbury, Newton Stacey, Drayton and Cocum, in the Test Valley district of Hampshire, England, centred about south-east of Andover. It is bounded to the n ...

, north-west Hampshire * Drayton, a reduced, partly renamed and subdivided estate of South Petherton, Somerset *

Drayton, Worcestershire Drayton is a hamlet in Worcestershire, England which remains part of the ecclesiastical parish of Chaddesley Corbett, which from its select vestry formed a civil parish and which also continues. Belne Brook, which originates in the Clent Hills an ...

, a largely subdivided estate of Chaddesley Corbett, Worcestershire

United States

Drayton, Georgia Drayton is an unincorporated community in Dooly County, in the U.S. state of Georgia. History The community was named after William Drayton William Drayton (December 30, 1776May 24, 1846) was an American politician, banker, and writer who gr ...

Drayton, North Dakota Drayton is a city in Pembina County, North Dakota, United States. The population was 757 at the 2020 census. Drayton was founded in 1878. Geography Drayton is located at (48.561091, -97.179414). According to the United States Census Bureau, t ...

* Drayton, South Carolina, an unincorporated community * Drayton Hall, South Carolina

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United Kingdom

Drayton Bassett Drayton Bassett is a village and civil parish since 1974 in Lichfield District in Staffordshire, England. The village is on the Heart of England Way, a footpath. Much of the housing is clustered together but more than half is 20th century in t ...

, Staffordshire *

, Buckinghamshire *

Drayton House Drayton House is a country house south-west of the village of Lowick, Northamptonshire, England. History Aubrey de Vere I participated in the Norman conquest of England and was awarded the manor of Drayton near Northampton. In the early thir ...

, Northamptonshire *

Drayton Manor Drayton Manor, one of Britain's lost houses, was a British stately home at Drayton Bassett, since its formation in the District of Lichfield, Staffordshire, England. In modern administrative areas, it was first put into Tamworth Poor Law Union ...

, Staffordshire ** Drayton Manor Theme Park, Staffordshire * Drayton Park railway station, Greater London * Drayton Parslow, Buckinghamshire * East Drayton, Nottinghamshire *

Fenny Drayton Fenny Drayton (once Drayton-in-the-Clay) is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Witherley, in the Hinckley and Bosworth district of Leicestershire, England. OS Explorer Map 232: Nuneaton & Tamworth: (1:25 000): It lies nea ...

, Leicestershire *

Market Drayton Market Drayton is a market town and electoral ward in the north of Shropshire, England, close to the Cheshire and Staffordshire borders. It is on the River Tern, and was formerly known as "Drayton in Hales" (c. 1868) and earlier simply as "Dray ...

, Shropshire * West Drayton, Greater London * West Drayton, Nottinghamshire

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