HOUGHTON-on-the-HILL, a parish in the hundred of GARTREE, county of LEICESTER, 6 miles (E. by S.) from Leicester, containing 374 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Leicester, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £16. 1. 0., and in the patronage of the Rev. Sherrard Coleman. The church is dedicated to St. Catherine.