Croxton, Cambridgeshire
'Croxton' is derived from 'farmstead in a nook, or of a man called Krókr',[2] or the Old English 'croh-tun' meaning saffron farm, and may have been part of a late Scandinavian settlement, along with Caxton and Toft.The nearest town is St Neots, 3.5 miles (5.6 km) west; minor roads run north to Toseland and south towards Abbotsley.[6] The village sits to the North of Croxton Park, a Grade II* listed[7] landscaped parkland with woodland and a lake.The current red brick, three-storey house was constructed around 1760–1 by Edward Leeds and probably incorporated part of the previous Tudor building.Sir (George) Douglas Cochrane Newton, Member of Parliament for Cambridge (and later 1st Baron Eltisley) was lord of the manor and principal landowner in 1929.