Houghton
Houghton may refer to:
Places
[edit]Australia
[edit]- Houghton, South Australia, a town near Adelaide
- Houghton Highway, the longest bridge in Australia, between Redcliffe and Brisbane in Queensland
- Houghton Island (Queensland)
Canada
[edit]- Houghton Township, Ontario, a former township in Norfolk County, Ontario
New Zealand
[edit]South Africa
[edit]- Houghton Estate, a suburb of Johannesburg
United Kingdom
[edit]- Hanging Houghton, Northamptonshire
- Houghton, Cambridgeshire
- Houghton, Cumbria
- Houghton, East Riding of Yorkshire
- Houghton, Hampshire
- Houghton, Norfolk
- Houghton Saint Giles, Norfolk
- Houghton, Northumberland, a location in the United Kingdom
- Houghton, Pembrokeshire
- Houghton, West Sussex
- Houghton-le-Side, Darlington
- Houghton-le-Spring, Sunderland
- Houghton Park, Houghton-le-Spring
- Houghton Bank, Darlington
- Houghton Conquest, Bedfordshire
- Houghton on the Hill, Leicestershire
- Houghton on the Hill, Norfolk
- Houghton Regis, Bedfordshire
- New Houghton, Derbyshire
- Little Houghton (disambiguation)
- Great Houghton (disambiguation)
United States
[edit]- Houghton, Iowa
- Houghton, Michigan
- Houghton County, Michigan
- Houghton Lake, Michigan, an unincorporated community
- Houghton Lake (Michigan), a large lake
- Houghton Township, Michigan
- Houghton, New York
- Houghton, South Dakota
- Houghton, Washington
- Houghton Point, a cape in Wisconsin
- Houghton Point, Michigan, an unincorporated community
Many of the places in the U.S. were named after geologist Douglass Houghton.
Buildings
[edit]- 36 Houghton Drive, a building in Arts and Crafts style in Houghton, Johannesburg
- Houghton Hall, a stately home in Norfolk, England (Walpole seat)
- Houghton Hall, East Riding of Yorkshire, a country house in Yorkshire, England
- Houghton House, a ruined country house in Bedfordshire, England
- Houghton Lodge, a Gothic fishing lodge in Hampshire, England
Other uses
[edit]- Houghton (surname)
- Houghton (East Indiaman), five ships
- Houghton College, a Christian liberal arts college in Houghton, New York
- Houghton Elevator, a grain elevator in Clio, Michigan
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, an American educational and trade publishing company
- Houghton Winery, a vineyard in Western Australia
- The Houghton family, American business family
- Bev Houghton, fictional character in the Australian soap opera Number 96
- Lurie–Houghton telescope, a catadioptric telescope
- Houghton gooseberry cultivar