Horton may refer to:

Places

Antarctica

Horton Glacier Horton Glacier () is a glacier at the east side of Mount Barre and Mount Gaudry, flowing southeast from Adelaide Island into Ryder Bay, Antarctica. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1977 for Colin P. Horton, a British Anta ...

, Adelaide Island, Antarctica *

Horton Ledge The Pecora Escarpment () is an irregular escarpment, long, standing southwest of Patuxent Range and marking the southernmost exposed rocks of the Pensacola Mountains. Exploration and name The Pecora Escarpment was mapped by United States Geol ...

, Queen Elizabeth Land, Antarctica

Australia

Horton, Queensland Horton is a rural town and locality in the Bundaberg Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Horton had a population of 205 people. Geography The Bruce Highway forms the southern boundary of the locality. History The town ...

, a town and locality in the Bundaberg Region *

Horton River (Australia) The Horton River, a perennial stream of the Barwon catchment within the Murray–Darling basin, is located in the Northern Tablelands and North West Slopes districts of New South Wales, Australia. Course and features The river rises on the no ...

, in northern New South Wales

Canada

Horton, Ontario Horton is a township in eastern Ontario, Canada, at the confluence of the Bonnechere River and the Ottawa River in Renfrew County. The Town of Renfrew was originally part of Horton Township. Communities The township comprises the communities o ...

, a township *

Horton River (Canada) The Horton River is a river in Inuvik Region, Northwest Territories, Inuvik and Sahtu Region, Sahtu Regions, Northwest Territories and Kitikmeot Region, Nunavut, Kitikmeot Region, Nunavut, Canada. It is a tributary of the Beaufort Sea and hence ...

, a tributary of the Beaufort Sea * Horton Township, Nova Scotia, an 18th-century township - see

Wolfville Wolfville is a Canadian town in the Annapolis Valley, Kings County, Nova Scotia, located about northwest of the provincial capital, Halifax. The town is home to Acadia University and Landmark East School. The town is a tourist destination d ...

United Kingdom

* Horton Beach, Port Eynon Bay, Wales *

Horton, Berkshire Horton is a village and civil parish in Berkshire, England. It is between Windsor and Staines-upon-Thames. History and etymology The village name is a common one in England. It is Old English in origin and derives from the two words ''horu'' ' ...

, a village and civil parish *

Horton, Buckinghamshire Horton is a hamlet in the parish of Ivinghoe, in Buckinghamshire, England. It is in the civil parish of Slapton. The name '' Horton'' is a common one in England. It derives from Old English ''horu'' 'dirt' and ''tūn'' 'settlement, farm, es ...

, a hamlet of Ivinghoe *

Horton, Cheshire Horton-by-Malpas is a former civil parish, now in the parish of Shocklach Oviatt and District, in the borough of Cheshire West and Chester and ceremonial county of Cheshire in England. In 2001 it had a population of 62. The parish included the h ...

, a village and former civil parish *

Horton, Dorset Horton is a village in Dorset, England, situated on the boundary between the chalk downland of Cranborne Chase and the Dorset Heaths, and ten miles north of Poole. The village has a population of 515 (2001). Overview The name ''Horton'' is a c ...

, a village and civil parish *

Horton, Gloucestershire Horton is a village and civil parish on the Cotswold Edge, in the South Gloucestershire district, in the ceremonial county of Gloucestershire, England. It is about north of Chipping Sodbury. The nearest settlement is Little Sodbury, about a ...

, a village *

Horton, Lancashire Horton, historically known as Horton-in-Craven, is a village and a civil parish in the Ribble Valley district of the English county of Lancashire (historically in the West Riding of Yorkshire). Population details are now included in the civil p ...

, a village and civil parish *

Horton, Northamptonshire Horton is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Hackleton, in the West Northamptonshire district, in the ceremonial county of Northamptonshire, England. The village manor, Horton Hall, now demolished, was home to the first gove ...

, a village * Horton, Blyth, Northumberland, a village *

Horton, Chatton Horton is a pair of small settlements, West Horton and East Horton, divided by a stream - the Horton Burn - in Northumberland, England north east of Wooler and west of Belford. Horton Moor is north of the settlements. It is first attested a ...

, a pair of small settlements: West Horton and East Horton, Northumberland **

Horton Moor Horton may refer to: Places Antarctica * Horton Glacier, Adelaide Island, Antarctica * Horton Ledge, Queen Elizabeth Land, Antarctica Australia * Horton, Queensland, a town and locality in the Bundaberg Region * Horton River (Australia), ...

, located north of the settlements * Horton, Hadley, a

location In geography, location or place is used to denote a region (point, line, or area) on Earth's surface. The term ''location'' generally implies a higher degree of certainty than ''place'', the latter often indicating an entity with an ambiguous bou ...

in Shropshire * Horton, Wem, a

in Shropshire *

Horton, Somerset Horton is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, situated north of Chard. The parish had a population of 826 in 2021,Table PP002 - Sex, from and 812 in 2011. History It is first attested as ''Horton'' in 1242. The place-name '' Hor ...

, a village and civil parish *

Horton, Staffordshire Horton is a village and civil parish in the English county of Staffordshire. The population of the civil parish as taken at the 2011 census was 781. It is situated about 3 miles (5 km) W of Leek. It is first attested as ''Horten(e)'' in ...

, a village and civil parish *

Horton, Swansea The Gower Peninsula () in the City and County of Swansea, Wales, contains over twenty villages and communities. Most of the peninsula is a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Villages Bishopston Bishopston (, or historically ''Ll ...

, a village *

Horton, Wiltshire Bishops Cannings is a village and civil parish in the Vale of Pewsey in Wiltshire, England, north-east of Devizes. The parish includes the village of Coate (not to be confused with Coate, Swindon) and the hamlets of Bourton, Horton and Little ...

, a hamlet/locality in Bishops Cannings *

Horton, Surrey Horton is a village in the borough of Epsom and Ewell, in the county of Surrey, England. It is situated between the towns and villages of Epsom, West Ewell, Chessington and Malden Rushett. Its principal road is Horton Lane, which runs the lengt ...

, a semi-rural area in the west of Epsom, Surrey **

Horton Country Park Horton Country Park is a Local Nature Reserve north-west of Epsom in Surrey. It is owned and managed by Epsom and Ewell Borough Council. The park is a wooded recreation and amenities area occupying the east of a narrow upland drainage divide, ...

, a local nature reserve *

Horton in Ribblesdale Horton in Ribblesdale is a small village and civil parish in Ribblesdale in the county of North Yorkshire, England. It is situated on the Settle–Carlisle Railway to the west of Pen-y-ghent. The parish extends from Helwith Bridge, south ...

, North Yorkshire *

Horton Park, Bradford Horton Park is a public park in Bradford, England, located to the South of the city in Great Horton. It was opened on 25 May 1878 on land purchased by Bradford Council in 1873. The park was designed by William Gay landscape gardener and survey ...

, West Yorkshire, a public park *

Horton-cum-Studley Horton-cum-Studley is a village and Civil parishes in England, civil parish in the Cherwell (district), Cherwell district, in Oxfordshire, England, about northeast of the centre of Oxford and bordering Otmoor, and is one of the "Seven Towns" o ...

, Oxfordshire, near Oakley, Buckinghamshire

United States

Horton, Alabama Horton is an unincorporated community in Marshall County, Alabama Alabama ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern and Deep South, Deep Southern regions of the United States. It borders Tennessee to th ...

, an unincorporated town * Horton, Iowa, an unincorporated community *

Horton, Kansas Horton is a city in Brown County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 1,523. History Horton was founded in 1886. It was named for Albert H. Horton, chief justice of the Kansas Supreme Court. On Jan ...

, a city * Horton, Minnesota, an unincorporated community * Horton, Oregon, an unincorporated community * Horton, Howell County, Missouri, an unincorporated community *

Horton, Vernon County, Missouri Horton is an unincorporated community in northern Vernon County, Missouri, United States. It is located on U.S. 71, approximately eight miles north of Nevada Nevada ( ; ) is a landlocked state in the Western United States. It border ...

, an unincorporated community * Horton, West Virginia, an unincorporated community * Horton Creek (Arizona) * Horton Park (Saint Paul, Minnesota), a small arboretum * Horton Peak, White Cloud Mountains, Idaho *

Horton Town, Missouri Horton Town is an unincorporated community in Washington County, in the U.S. state of Missouri Missouri (''see #Etymology and pronunciation, pronunciation'') is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of t ...

, an unincorporated community in Washington County *

Horton Township (disambiguation) Horton Township may refer to: In Canada * Horton Township, Nova Scotia In the United States

* Horton Township, Osceola County, Iowa * Horton Township, Michigan * Horton Township, Stevens County, Minnesota * Horton Township, Elk County, Pennsy ...

Elsewhere

21527 Horton Fifteen or 15 may refer to: *15 (number) *one of the years 15 BC, AD 15, 1915, 2015 Music *Fifteen (band), a punk rock band Albums * 15 (Buckcherry album), ''15'' (Buckcherry album), 2005 * 15 (Ani Lorak album), ''15'' (Ani Lorak album), 2 ...

, an asteroid * Horton Plains, Sri Lanka, see

Horton Plains National Park Horton Plains National Park () is a national park in the central highlands of Sri Lanka that was designated in 1988. It covers an area of 31km² and borders Thotupalakanda Nature Reserve. It is located at an elevation of and encompasses montane ...

People and fictional characters

* Horton (given name) *

Horton (surname) __NOTOC__ Horton is an Anglo-Saxon surname, deriving from the common English place-name '' Horton''. It derives from Old English ''horu'' 'dirt' and ''tūn'' 'settlement, farm, estate', presumably meaning 'farm on muddy soil'. List of people wi ...

Historic structures

Horton Gristmill Horton Gristmill is a historic grist mill located at Malone in Franklin County, New York. It was built in 1853 and is a -story rectangular building with a gable roof. It is built of Potsdam sandstone. From 1917 into the 1950s, it was operated b ...

, Malone, New York, on the National Register of Historic Places *

Horton House Horton House (also known as Horton-duBignon House, Brewery Ruins, duBignon Cemetery) is a historic site on Riverview Drive in Jekyll Island, Georgia. The tabby house was originally constructed in 1743 by Major William Horton, a top military ...

, Jekyll Island, Georgia, on the US National Register of Historic Places *

Horton Priory Horton Priory was a priory at Horton in Dorset, England. It was founded as a Benedictine abbey around 970 by Ordgar, Earl of Devon, or his son, Ordulph, and dedicated to Saint Olfrida, Wilfrida or Wulfthryth, the mother of Saint Edith of Wilton ...

, Horton, Dorset, England

Hospitals

Horton General Hospital The Horton General Hospital is a National Health Service hospital located on the Oxford Road, in the Calthorpe ward of Banbury. It is managed by Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. History Pre-1948 The earliest part of the hospit ...

, a National Health Service-run hospital, Banbury, Oxfordshire, England *

Horton Hospital Horton Hospital, formerly called Horton Asylum, was a large psychiatric hospital in the Horton area of Epsom, Surrey. History Origins The hospital was designed for the London County Council by George Thomas Hine, consultant architect to the Com ...

, a large psychiatric hospital in Epsom, Surrey, England, which closed in 1997

Other uses

* Horton baronets, an extinct title in the Baronetage of Great Britain *

Horton Fieldhouse The Illinois State Redbirds are the athletic teams that represent Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois. Teams play at the NCAA Division I level ( FCS in football). Most teams compete in the Missouri Valley Conference except football (Mi ...

, an indoor athletics facility on the campus of Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois *

Horton Light Railway The Horton Light Railway had its origins in a contractor's line (the Ewell & Long Grove Railway) built in 1905 to transport building materials, coal and other supplies for London County Council's Epsom Cluster of psychiatric hospitals in the Hort ...

, Surrey, England

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