England
Central Bedfordshire
Houghton Conquest

Houghton Conquest

Houghton Conquest is a village and civil parish located in the district of , England. The parish also includes the hamlet of .
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  • Type: Village with 1,310 residents
  • Description: village and civil parish in Bedfordshire, UK
  • Also known as: “Houghton Conquest, Bedfordshire”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Church of All Saints, Houghton Conquest and Kings Wood and Glebe Meadows, Houghton Conquest.

Church
Photo: Rodney Burton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Church of All Saints is a Grade I listed church in Houghton Conquest, , England. It became a listed building on 23 January 1961. The , dedicated to All Saints, was built during the 14th century.

Nature reserve
Photo: ian saunders, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kings Wood and Glebe Meadows is a 36.1-hectare Site of Special Scientific Interest in Houghton Conquest in . A local teenage boy, Peter Sollars, discovered many rich communities of plants there, including a number of rare species, e.g.

Manor estate
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is a ruined mansion house in the parish of Houghton Conquest, . It is a Grade I listed building, positioned above the surrounding countryside, and commands excellent views.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include How End and Stewartby.

Locality
Photo: Dennis simpson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a hamlet located in the district of , England. The settlement is close to the larger villages of and Houghton Conquest. forms part of the Houghton Conquest civil parish.

Village
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is a model village and civil parish in , England, originally built for the workers of the London Brick Company. The village was designed and built to the plans of the company's architect Mr F W Walker, laid out on 'Garden City' principle, a later and more modern development than such better-known Victorian model villages as .

Hamlet
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is a small hamlet on the edge of the town of in , England. Historically it was one of the hamlets or "ends" scattered across the parish of Kempston. is situated 2 miles northwest of Houghton Conquest.

Houghton Conquest

Latitude
52.0625° or 52° 3′ 45″ north
Longitude
-0.47628° or 0° 28′ 35″ west
Population
1,310
Elevation
171 feet (52 metres)
Open location code
9C4X3G6F+XF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 8344214
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2646526
Wiki­data ID
Q1518934
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Houghton Conquest” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “هوغتون كونكوست”
  • Basque: “Houghton Conquest”
  • Cebuano: “Houghton Conquest”
  • Chinese: “Houghton Conquest”
  • Dutch: “Houghton Conquest”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “هوجتون كونكوست”
  • French: “Houghton Conquest”
  • Irish: “Houghton Conquest”
  • Italian: “Houghton Conquest”
  • Japanese: “ホートン・コンクェスト”
  • Japanese: “ホートン・コンクエスト”
  • Ladin: “Houghton Conquest”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Houghton Conquest”
  • Persian: “هوتون کانکوئست”
  • Polish: “Houghton Conquest”
  • Spanish: “Houghton Conquest”
  • Swedish: “Houghton Conquest”
  • Turkish: “Houghton Conquest”
  • Welsh: “Houghton Conquest”
  • “Houghton Conquest”

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Highlights include Houghton Conquest Lower School and Conquest Wood.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Houghton Conquest”. Photo: Rodney Burton, CC BY-SA 2.0.