Great_Houghton,_Northamptonshire

Great Houghton, Northamptonshire

Great Houghton, Northamptonshire

Human settlement in England

Great Houghton is a village near Northampton in West Northamptonshire. The population of the civil parish at the 2021 census was 651.[1] It lies on the edge of the large market town, on the Bedford Road (A428). The village has two pubs and a large village hall and playing fields. The village was also the home of Great Houghton School, a private day school which closed in 2014.[2]

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The villages name means 'hill-spur farm/settlement'.[3]

The village was struck by an F1/T2 tornado on 23 November 1981, as part of the record-breaking nationwide tornado outbreak on that day.[4]

References

  1. [1]
    "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 4 July 2016.
  2. [2]
    Northampton Chronicle & Echo: Children and staff face uncertain future after Northamptonshire school closes Accessed 27 JUly 2014
  3. [3]
    http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Northamptonshire/Great%20and%20Little%20Houghton
  4. [4]
    "European Severe Weather Database".


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