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ID: 7027293
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7027293
Record Type:
administrative
Houghton (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 52 20 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 52.3333
decimal degrees
Long: 000 07 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -0.1167
decimal degrees
Note:
There is a 17th-century watermill on the site of a mill given by the 10th-century founder of Ramsey Abbey to the abbot.
Names:
Houghton
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
British English-P
,
U
,
N
)
Hoctune
(
H
,
V
,
Anglo-Saxon-P
,
U
,
N
)
............
recorded in the Domesday Book in 1086
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
United Kingdom
(nation) (
P
)
............
England
(country) (
P
)
................
Cambridgeshire
(county) (
P
)
....................
Houghton
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Additional Parents:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
United Kingdom
(nation) (
P
)
............
England
(country) (
P
)
................
Huntingdonshire
(former administrative division) (
P,
H
)
....................
Houghton
(inhabited place) (
P,
H
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
village (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Hoctune..........
[
VP
]
.................
Domesday Book (1985)
141
Houghton..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Domesday Book (1985)
141
.................
Gazetteer of Great Britain (1999)
376
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Domesday Book (1985)
141
..................
Gazetteer of Great Britain (1999)
376
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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