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Houghton may refer to:

Buildings

  • Houghton Hall, a stately home in Norfolk, England (Walpole seat)
  • Houghton Hall, East Riding of Yorkshire, a country house in Yorkshire, England
  • Houghton House, a ruined country house in Bedfordshire, England
  • Houghton Lodge, a Gothic fishing lodge in Hampshire, England, built c.1800, possibly by John Nash for the Pitt-Rivers family.
  • Hoghton Tower, a fortified manor house in Lancashire

Places

Australia

Canada

New Zealand

South Africa

United Kingdom

  • Houghton, Cambridgeshire
  • Houghton, Cumbria
  • Houghton, East Riding of Yorkshire
  • Houghton, Hampshire
  • Houghton, Norfolk
  • Houghton Saint Giles, Norfolk
  • Houghton, Northumberland
  • Houghton, Pembrokeshire
  • Houghton, West Sussex
  • Houghton-le-Side, Darlington
  • Houghton-le-Spring, Sunderland
  • Houghton Park, Houghton-le-Spring
  • Houghton Bank, Darlington
  • Houghton Conquest, Bedfordshire
  • Houghton on the Hill, Leicestershire
  • Houghton on the Hill, Norfolk
  • Houghton Regis, Bedfordshire
  • New Houghton, Derbyshire
  • Little Houghton (disambiguation)
  • Great Houghton (disambiguation)

United States

Many of the places in the U.S. were named after geologist Douglass Houghton.

Other uses

  • Houghton (surname)
  • Houghton College, a Christian liberal arts college in Houghton, New York
  • Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, an American educational publishing company
  • Houghton Winery, a vineyard in Western Australia
  • the Houghton family, American business family
  • Bev Houghton, fictional character in the Australian soap opera Number 96
  • Lurie–Houghton telescope, a catadioptric telescope
  • Houghton gooseberry cultivar

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Houghton para niños

  • Haughton (disambiguation)
  • Hoghton (disambiguation)
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