HEXTON, (Hertfordshire) near Luton in Bedfordshire, famous for a battle wherein the Danes were routed by the Saxons, bel. anciently to the abbey of St. Albans; whose abbots were for 510 years patrons of its Ch. dedicated to St. Faith, whose statue was erected over a fountain near the Ch.-yard, called St. Faith's-Well. K. Hen.VIII. after the Diss. granted the manor to Sir Richard Lee; whose daughter carrying it by marriage to Edw. Sadlier, Esq; he conveyed it to his brother, Hen. Sadlier, who sold it in 1593 to Pet. Taverner of Oxfordshire. The place stands at the foot of rocks, from whence issue many springs; and betwixt it and Luton are many burrows, or hillocks, supposed to have been cast up for the bodies of those slain in the battle above-mentioned.