Laxton, Nottinghamshire
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Laxton is a small village in the civil parish of Laxton and Moorhouse in the English county of Nottinghamshire, situated about 25 miles northeast of Nottingham city centre. The population of the civil parish (including Moorhouse) at the 2021 census was 251.[1][2] Laxton is best known for having the last remaining working open field system in the United Kingdom. Its name is recorded first in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Laxintone, and may come from Anglo-Saxon Leaxingatūn, meaning the 'farmstead or estate of the people of a man called Leaxa. It is possibly the namesake of the town of Lexington, Massachusetts, and thus ultimately of all the other communities named Lexington in the United States, directly or indirectly.[3]
Laxton | |
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Location within Nottinghamshire | |
Population | 251 (2021 - parish including Moorhouse) |
OS grid reference | SK717673 |
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Region | |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | NEWARK |
Postcode district | NG22 |
Police | Nottinghamshire |
Fire | Nottinghamshire |
Ambulance | East Midlands |
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