HOUGHTON (GREAT), a township in that part of
the parish of DARFIELD which is in the northern division
of the wapentake of STRAFFORTH-AND-TICKHILL,
West riding of the county of YORK, 7 miles (E. by N.)
from Barnesley, containing 287 inhabitants, A small
school, in which ten poor children are instructed, gratuitously,
was founded and endowed with £3.5. per
annum, and a house for the master, by a member of
the family of Rhodes.