Drayton may refer to:
People
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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
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United States v. Drayton
''United States v. Drayton'', 536 U.S. 194 (2002), was a case in which the United States Supreme Court clarified the applicability of Fourth Amendment protections to searches and seizures that occur on buses, as well as the function of consent d ...
'', 536 U.S. 194 (2002)
Places
Australia
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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
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Shire of Drayton
The Shire of Drayton was a local government area in the Darling Downs region of Queensland, Australia, west of Toowoomba. It existed between 1887 and 1949.
History
The ''Divisional Boards Act 1879'' created local government areas across Queensl ...
, a former local government area in Queensland
Canada
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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
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Drayton, Hampshire, a close suburb of Portsmouth
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Drayton, Leicestershire
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Drayton, Norfolk
Drayton, Norfolk, is a suburban village in the English county of Norfolk. The village is located in the district of Broadland, north west of Norwich, on the A1067 road between Hellesdon and Taverham. Today, Drayton is largely dominated by the T ...
, a satellite village of Norwich
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Drayton, Northamptonshire, a suburb of Daventry
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Drayton, Cherwell, Oxfordshire, a satellite village of Banbury
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Drayton, Vale of White Horse
Drayton is a village and civil parish about south of Abingdon, Oxfordshire. It was part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred it to Oxfordshire. The parish includes the hamlet of Sutton Wick. The 2011 Census recorded the ...
, Oxfordshire, a satellite village of Abingdon
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Drayton St. Leonard, Oxfordshire, locally abbreviated sometimes to Drayton
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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 ...
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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
West Ealing is a district in the London Borough of Ealing, in West London. The district is about west of Ealing Broadway. Although there is a long history of settlement in the area, West Ealing in its present form is less than one hundred years ...
, Greater London
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Drayton Green railway station
Drayton Green railway station is in the London Borough of Ealing in west London, and is in Travelcard Zone 4. It is on the Greenford branch line north of where it joins the Great Western Main Line at from .
History
It first opened as Drayt ...
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Drayton Manor High School
Drayton Manor High School, formerly Drayton Manor Grammar School, is an academy school located in Hanwell, west London, England. The school was granted academy status in August 2011. Its emblem is a phoenix rising from a crown with the legend ' ...
* Drayton, the south-east of the parish of
Swineshead, Lincolnshire
Swineshead is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Boston in Lincolnshire, England. It is west of the town of Boston. The population of the civil parish including Baythorpe was 2,810 at the 2011 census. The parish includes the areas ...
* 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
South Petherton is a village and civil parish in the South Somerset district of Somerset, England, located east of Ilminster and north of Crewkerne. The parish had a population of 3,367 in 2011 and includes the smaller village of Over Stra ...
, Somerset
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Drayton, Worcestershire, a largely subdivided estate of Chaddesley Corbett, Worcestershire
United States
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Drayton, South Carolina
Drayton is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Spartanburg County, in the U.S. state of South Carolina. It was first listed as a CDP in the 2020 census with a population of 1,115.
History
A post office called Drayto ...
, an unincorporated community
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Drayton Hall
Drayton Hall is an 18th-century plantation located on the Ashley River about 15 miles (24 km) northwest of Charleston, South Carolina, and directly across the Ashley River from North Charleston, west of the Ashley in the Lowcountry. An e ...
, South Carolina
Other place names
United Kingdom
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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
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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
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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 thi ...
, Northamptonshire
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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 Unio ...
, Staffordshire
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Drayton Manor Theme Park
Drayton Manor Resort is a family theme park, zoo and accommodation in the grounds of the former Drayton Manor, in Drayton Bassett, Staffordshire, England, UK. It covers , of which about are in use, and hosts about 1.5 million people each yea ...
, Staffordshire
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Drayton Park railway station
Drayton Park is a National Rail station in Highbury, in the London Borough of Islington. It is on the Northern City Line between Highbury & Islington and Finsbury Park stations, down the line from ; it is in Travelcard Zone 2.
The st ...
, Greater London
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Drayton Parslow
Drayton Parslow is a village and civil parish in the unitary authority area of Buckinghamshire, England, about south of Bletchley. In the 2001 census the parish had a population of 596, increasing at the 2011 census to 614.
Toponym
In the 1 ...
, Buckinghamshire
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East Drayton
East Drayton is a village in Nottinghamshire, England. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 212, increasing to 252 at the 2011 Census. It is located 3 miles west of Dunham-on-Trent.
The parish church of St Peter and St Paul is 13 ...
, Nottinghamshire
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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 ne ...
, Leicestershire
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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 "D ...
, Shropshire
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West Drayton
West Drayton is a suburban town in the London Borough of Hillingdon. It was an ancient parish in the county of Middlesex and from 1929 was part of the Yiewsley and West Drayton Urban District, which became part of Greater London in 1965. Th ...
, Greater London
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West Drayton, Nottinghamshire
West Drayton is a village and civil parish in the Bassetlaw district in the county of Nottinghamshire, England. It lies north east of Nottingham and south of Retford.
In 2011 the parish had a population of 225. The parish includes the villa ...
See also
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Draycott (disambiguation)
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