English (West Midlands): habitation name from some minor locality, probably the lost Foxhale near Claverley Shropshire, the name of which is derived from Old English fox + halh fox + hollow, recess. It is less likely that the surname is derived from Foxhall in Suffolk (earlier Foxhole), which gets its name from Old English fox + hol(h) fox + hollow, depression: the surname is not established in East Anglia.
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