HOUGH-on-the-HILL, a parish in the wapentake
of LOVEDEN, parts of KESTEVEN, county of LINCOLN,
7 miles (N.) from Grantham, containing, with the
hamlets of Brandon and Gelston, 533 inhabitants. The
living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of
Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £15. 6. 8., and in
the patronage of the Crown. The church is dedicated
to All Saints. Here was an Alien priory of Augustine
canons, a cell to the abbey of St. Mary de Voto, at Cherburgh
in Normandy, the revenue of which was valued at
£20, when it was granted by Richard II. to the Carthusians
at Coventry: at the dissolution it was a cell
to the priory of Montgrace in Yorkshire.