HOUGHTON, (Nottinghamshire) on the Idel, 2 m. W. from Tuxford, gives title of Visc. to the D. of Newcastle, as it did that
of Baron to Denzil Hollis, the first Ld. of the family. Their ancestor, Sir William Hollis, bought this manor of John
Babington and his wife, the heiress of the Stanhopes. Before it came to the Stanhopes, it was for several successions, in
the family of Longvillers, and therefore came to be called Houghton-Longvillers. Near the park-gate here, bel. to the said
D. of Newcastle, a grammar fr. sc. was erected and endowed here, in 1692, by Hen. Walters, steward to Gilbert and John Es.
of Clare, for the benefit of this and other adjacent villages; which was to be under the inspection of the ministers of
East and West-Markham and Kirton, who were to visit it once a year.