 This is from the Old English "Seax-tūn", meaning 'town or settlement of the Saxons'.Saxton is home to an Anglican church, a primary school, a village hall, one pub, the Greyhound owned and operated by Samuel Smith's Old Brewery, a cricket club, and the surviving medieval motte of Saxton Castle which was built in the eleventh century.All Saints Church is a grade I listed structure which dates back to the 11th century.