Place:Hanging Houghton, Northamptonshire, England

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NameHanging Houghton
TypeHamlet, Civil parish
Located inNorthamptonshire, England     ( - 1935)
See alsoOrlingbury Hundred, Northamptonshire, Englandhundred in which it was located
Brixworth Rural, Northamptonshire, Englandrural district 1894-1974
Lamport, Northamptonshire, Englandparish into which it was absorbed in 1935
Daventry District, Northamptonshire, Englanddistrict municipality covering the area since 1974
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Hanging Houghton is a small village in West Northamptonshire in England. It is on the A508 road between Brixworth and Lamport, in the civil parish of Lamport.

The villages name means 'Houghton (= hill-spur farm/settlement) on a steep slope'.

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