Houghton
Houghton is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Houghton and Wyton, in Cambridgeshire, England, approximately 3 miles east of Huntingdon on the A1123 road, and south of RAF Wyton.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 1,390 residents
- Description: village in Cambridgeshire, UK
- Also known as: “Houghton, Cambridgeshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Houghton Mill and Houghton Meadows.
Houghton Mill
Photo: Cmglee, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Houghton Mill is a water mill located on the Great Ouse in the village of Houghton, Cambridgeshire, England. It is a National Trust property and a Grade II* listed building.
Houghton Meadows
Nature reserve
Photo: David Bartlett, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Houghton Meadows is a 4.7-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest between Houghton and St Ives in Cambridgeshire. The SSSI covers three meadows south of Thicket Road; they are part of the 8-hectare Houghton Meadows nature reserve, which…
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Wyton and Wyton on the Hill.
Wyton
Village
Photo: Uksignpix, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Wyton is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Houghton and Wyton, in Cambridgeshire, England. It lies approximately 2 miles east of Huntingdon.
Wyton on the Hill
Village
Photo: Gordon Brown, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wyton on the Hill is a village and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England. Wyton on the Hill lies approximately 3 miles north-east of Huntingdon and 1 mile north of Houghton.
St Ives
Town
Photo: Uksignpix, CC BY-SA 3.0.
St Ives is a medieval market town and civil parish in the Huntingdonshire district of Cambridgeshire, England. It is located on the River Great Ouse, and there is a historic stone bridge dating from 1425. St Ives is situated 2 miles east of Houghton.
Houghton
- Category: locality
- Location: Houghton and Wyton, Huntingdonshire, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.33032° or 52° 19′ 49″ northLongitude
-0.11502° or 0° 6′ 54″ westPopulation
1,390Elevation
39 feet (12 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB HOGOpen location code
9C4X8VJM+4XOpenStreetMap ID
node 19793891OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Houghton” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “هوغتون”
- Basque: “Houghton (Cambridgeshire)”
- Basque: “Houghton”
- Cebuano: “Houghton”
- Dutch: “Houghton”
- Egyptian Arabic: “هوجتون”
- French: “Houghton”
- Irish: “Houghton”
- Japanese: “ホートン”
- Polish: “Houghton”
- Spanish: “Houghton”
- Swedish: “Houghton, Cambridgeshire”
- Swedish: “Houghton”
- Welsh: “Houghton, Swydd Gaergrawnt”
- Welsh: “Houghton”
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Highlights include Mill Holmes and Saint Mary The Virgin, Houghton with Wyton.
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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: BesselDekker, Public domain.