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===Origins=== [[File:Shoreditch Met. B Ward Map 1916.svg|thumb|A map showing Hoxton ward of Shoreditch Metropolitan Borough as it appeared in 1916.]] The earliest recorded names of the settlement are Hochestone, in the [[Domesday Book]] in 1086, and Hocston, which is mentioned in a fine of 1220-1221. The name is likely to derive from the possessive form of a person's name, possibly ''Hocg'', and the [[Old English]] word ''tun'', meaning [[Town#Etymology|a fortified enclosure, village, or manor]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol8/pp40-47|title=Survey of London|volume=8: Shoreditch|chapter=Historical introduction: Hoxton, east of Kingsland Road|page=40|editor-first=James|editor-last=Bird|publisher=[[British History Online]]|year=1922|location=London|access-date=15 January 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924028041923/page/n69/mode/1up|title=The Place Names of Middlesex|author-last=Gover|author-first=John Eric Bruce|year=1922|location=London|page=50|publisher=[[Longmans, Green and Co.]]|access-date=15 January 2024}}</ref> Little is recorded of the origins of the settlement, though there was [[Ancient Rome|Roman]] activity around [[Ermine Street]], which ran to the east of the area from the first century. In [[medieval]] times, Hoxton formed a rural part of [[Shoreditch (parish)|Shoreditch parish]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol8/pp1-5|title=Survey of London|volume=8: Shoreditch|chapter=Historical introduction: General|page=1|editor-first=James|editor-last=Bird|publisher=[[British History Online]]|year=1922|location=London|access-date=28 September 2009}}</ref> It achieved independent ecclesiastical status in 1826 with the founding of its own parish church<ref>[http://www.openchurchestrust.org.uk/Churches/Hoxton.htm] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110930151213/http://www.openchurchestrust.org.uk/Churches/Hoxton.htm |date=30 September 2011 }}</ref> dedicated to [[St John the Baptist]], though civil jurisdiction was still invested in the Shoreditch vestry. The [[Worshipful Company of Haberdashers]] remains Patron of the [[advowson]] of the [[parish]] of [[St John the Baptist, Hoxton|St John's]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.haberdashers.co.uk/index.php?p=stJohns |title=Haberdashers |publisher=Haberdashers.co.uk |access-date=2014-01-21}}</ref> In 1415, the [[Lord Mayor of London]] "caused the wall of the City to be broken towards [[Moorfields]], and built the postern called [[Moorgate]], for the ease of the citizens to walk that way upon causeways towards [[Islington]] and Hoxton"{{citation needed|date=January 2024}} β at that time, still marshy areas. The residents responded by harassing walkers to protect their fields. A century later, the hedges and ditches were destroyed, by order of the city, to enable [[City of London|city]] dwellers to partake in leisure at Hoxton.{{citation needed|date=January 2024}}
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