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Houghton, Lancashire

Historical Description

Houghton, a hamlet and a township in Winwick parish, Lancashire. The hamlet lies 2½ miles NNE of Warrington. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Warrington. The township includes also Middleton and Arbury, and comprises 853 acres; population, 240.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Church Records

Ancestry.co.uk, in association with Lancashire Archives, have images of the Parish Registers for Lancashire online.


Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.


Maps

Online maps of Houghton are available from a number of sites:


Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Lancashire newspapers online:

DistrictCarlisle
CountyCumbria
RegionNorth West
CountryEngland
Postal districtCA3
Post TownCarlisle

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