Houghton
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
- Houghton, South Australia, a town near Adelaide
- Houghton Highway, the longest bridge in Australia, between Redcliffe and Brisbane in Queensland
- Houghton Island (Queensland)
Canada
- Houghton Township, Ontario, a former township in Norfolk County, Ontario
New Zealand
South Africa
- Houghton Estate, a suburb of Johannesburg
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
- Houghton, Iowa
- Houghton, Michigan
- Houghton County, Michigan
- Houghton Lake, Michigan, an unincorporated community
- Houghton Lake (Michigan), a large lake
- Houghton Township, Michigan
- Houghton, New York
- Houghton, South Dakota
- Houghton, Washington
- Houghton Point, a cape in Wisconsin
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
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