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Horton, from Old English, a common place-name usually meaning "muddy farmstead." ¹ It is the name of several places:
- Horton, Berkshire
- Horton, Buckinghamshire
- Horton, Dorset
- Horton, Gloucestershire
- Horton, Lancashire
- Horton, Northamptonshire
- Horton, Shropshire
- Horton, Somerset
- Horton, Staffordshire
- Horton, Wiltshire
- Horton-cum-Studley, Oxfordshire
- Horton-in-Ribblesdale, North Yorkshire
Horton is also a name:
- Horton is also the name of a fictional elephant character in the children's books Horton Hatches the Egg (1940) and Horton Hears A Who (1954), by Dr. Seuss.
- Wilmot Horton, English thinker who proposed the idea of 'assisted emigration' to solve population problems in Britain in the early 19th century.
- Tim Horton, Canadian ice hockey player and founder of the ubiquitous coffee shops in Canada.
- Lester Horton, modern dancer
- Frank Horton, former U.S. Congressman
- Johnny Horton, former American country music singer.
- Sir Robert Horton, UK businessman
- Robert E. Horton, US hydrologist.
- Horton's syndrome, another name for cluster headache