Laxton and Moorhouse is a civil parish in the Newark and Sherwood district, within the county of Nottinghamshire, England. In 2021 the parish had a population of 251.
It consists of two settlements:
The parish was previously known as Laxton until 1990 when Moorhouse was included in the title.
Laxton is best known for having the last remaining working open-field system in the United Kingdom. Its name is recorded first in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Laxintone, and may come from Anglo-Saxon Leaxingatà «n, meaning the 'farmstead or estate of the people of a man called Leaxa. It is possibly the namesake of the town of Lexington, Massachusetts, and thus ultimately of all the other towns named Lexington in the United States.
This is 2 miles east of Laxton, Predominantly, it is a scattering of farms, farmhouses and cottages amongst a wider rural setting. These are grouped around three roads meeting by a single junction: Green Lane, Moorhouse Lane, and Ossington Lane.