HOUGHTON (NEW), a parish in the hundred of GALLOW, county of NORFOLK, 9 miles (W. byS.) from Fakenham, containing 209 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Norfolk, and diocese of Norwich, rated in the king's books at £5, and endowed with £ 200 parliamentary grant. The Marquis of Cholmondeley was patron in 1822. The church is dedicated to St. Martin.