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Foxton, Leicestershire
Foxton is a village in Leicestershire, England, to the north-west of Market Harborough. The village is on the Grand Union Canal and is the site of the Foxton Locks〔(Foxton Locks on Waterscape website )〕〔(Foxton Locks website )〕 and Foxton Inclined Plane.
==History==
The village has previously been known as Foxestone and Foxtone.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.britishplacenames.co.uk/sp7089-foxton-leicestershire )〕 It is believed to have developed these names from the large number of foxes which inhabit the area.〔
Foxton was originally a hill-top settlement,〔 thought to have been founded in Saxon times with a landscape fashioned in the ice-age.〔 The village gradually moved down the valley side〔 as a farming community, working on the open three field system until it was enclosed in 1770.〔 Foxton remained virtually unchanged〔 between Norman times until the end of the 18th century when the canal arrived from Leicester, cutting through the village.〔 Agriculture began to diminish as improved communication and alternative job opportunities meant that people left their village to work〔 and in the bringing of trade and industry〔 via the canal. In 1935 a small area in the south-east of Foxton was transferred to Harborough, and a small part of Harborough was transferred to Foxton.〔
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