Houghton
Houghton is a village and a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. Houghton is located 11 miles north-east of King's Lynn and 30 miles north-west of Norwich.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Hamlet with 75 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Norfolk, England, UK
- Also known as: “Houghton-next-Harpley”, “Houghton, Norfolk”, and “New Houghton”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Houghton Hall and Church of St Lawrence.
Houghton Hall
Building
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Houghton Hall is a country house in the parish of Houghton in Norfolk, England. It is the residence of the 7th Marquess of Cholmondeley. It was commissioned by the de facto first British Prime Minister, Sir Robert Walpole, in 1722, and is a key building in the history of Neo-Palladian architecture in England.
Church of St Peter
Church
Photo: Nigel Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Church of St Peter is situated 1½ miles east of Houghton.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Harpley and Great Massingham.
Harpley
Village
Photo: Evelyn Simak, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Harpley is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk, located along the A148. Harpley is 12 miles north-east of King's Lynn and 30 miles north-west of Norwich.
Great Massingham
Village
Great Massingham is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. Great Massingham is located 11 miles east of King's Lynn and 28 miles north-west of Norwich. Great Massingham is situated 3 miles south of Houghton.
Great Bircham
Village
Photo: Andrew Huggett, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Great Bircham is a village, part of the civil parish of Bircham, in the English county of Norfolk. It is 12 miles north-east of the town of King's Lynn, and 38 miles north-west of the city of Norwich. Great Bircham is situated 3½ miles northwest of Houghton.
Houghton
- Categories: village, civil parish, and locality
- Location: Houghton, King’s Lynn and West Norfolk District, Norfolk, East of England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.81619° or 52° 48′ 58″ northLongitude
0.6569° or 0° 39′ 25″ eastPopulation
75Elevation
253 feet (77 metres)Open location code
9F42RM84+FQOpenStreetMap ID
node 2737041045OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletGeoNames ID
2646527Wikidata ID
Q5912920
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Azerbaijani to Welsh—“Houghton” goes by many names.
- Azerbaijani: “Houton”
- Belarusian: “Хоўтан”
- Cebuano: “Houghton (parokya sa Hiniusang Gingharian, Inglatera, Norfolk)”
- Cebuano: “Houghton”
- Dutch: “Houghton”
- French: “Houghton”
- Hebrew: “האוטון, נורפוק”
- Irish: “Houghton”
- Italian: “Houghton (Norfolk)”
- Italian: “Houghton”
- Japanese: “ホートン (ノーフォーク)”
- Ladin: “Houghton (Norfolk)”
- Ladin: “Houghton”
- Persian: “هوتون، نورفک”
- Polish: “Houghton (Norfolk)”
- Polish: “Houghton”
- Russian: “Хоутон”
- Slovenian: “Houghton”
- Swedish: “Houghton (parish i Storbritannien, England, Norfolk)”
- Swedish: “Houghton, Norfolk”
- Turkish: “Houghton, Norfolk”
- Welsh: “Houghton, Norfolk”
- Welsh: “Houghton”
- “Houghton”
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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”. Photo: Nigel Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0.