Laxton and Moorhouse

Civil parish in England

Newark and Sherwood

Nottinghamshire

Region

East Midlands

CountryEnglandSovereign stateUnited KingdomPlacesLaxton and MoorhousePost townNEWARKPostcode districtNG22Dialling code01636 / 01777 / 01780PoliceNottinghamshireFire Nottinghamshire Ambulance East Midlands UK Parliament

Newark

Websitewww.laxtonandmoorhouseparishcouncil.co.uk

List of places: UK; England; Nottinghamshire

53°11′13″N 0°54′43″W / 53.187060°N 0.911928°W / 53.187060; -0.911928

Laxton and Moorhouse is a civil parish in the Newark and Sherwood district, within the county of Nottinghamshire, England.

It consists of two settlements:

A village, Laxton
A hamlet, Moorhouse.

The parish was previously known as Laxton until 1990 when Moorhouse was included in the title.^[1]

Laxton

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 towns named Lexington in the United States.^[2]

Moorhouse

This is 2 miles east of Laxton, Predominantly, it is a scattering of farms, farmhouses and cottages amongst a wider rural setting. These are grouped around three roads meeting by a single junction: Green Lane, Moorhouse Lane, and Ossington Lane.

References

^ "LGBCE | Nottinghamshire | LGBCE Site". www.lgbce.org.uk. Retrieved 10 November 2020.
^ Gannett, Henry (1905). The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 186.