HOUGHTON (GREAT), a parish in the hundred of
WYMERSLEY, county of NORTHAMPTON, miles (E.S.E.)
from Northampton, containing 249 inhabitants. The
living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Northampton,
and diocese of Peterborough, rated in the king's books
at £22, and in the patronage of the President and Fellows
of Magdalene College, Oxford. The church is dedicated
to St. Mary.