Houghall, Durham
Historical Description
Houghall, an ancient manor-house, once moated and fortified, in Durham, on the river Wear, 1 mile SE of Durham. It was built by Prior Hotoun, was occupied for a time by Cromwell, and belongs to the Dean and Chapter of Durham. Hougham, a village and a parish in Kent. The village stands 1 mile from the coast, and 2½ miles WSW of Dover station on the S.E.R. The parish contains also the hamlets of Hougham Court and West Hougham, and the western outskirts of the town of Dover, and is partly within Dover borough. Post town, Dover. Acreage, 2917 of land and 183 of water and foreshore; population, 7842. The Heights Barracks, the Citadel Engineers' Barracks, the Western Heights Hospital, the Drop Eedoubt, the Married Soldiers' Quarters, and the Kent Artillery Militia Stores are here. The chapelry of Christ Church, or of Hongham-in-Dover, is within the parish, and was constituted in 1844. The parochial living is a vicarage, and that of Christ church is a perpetual curacy, in the diocese of Canterbury; value of the former,, £190 with residence. Patron of the former, the Archbishop of Canterbury. The parochial church is Early English, and was restored and enlarged in 1884. The church of Christ Church is good. The works for the proposed Channel Tunnel were started here by the South-Eastern Eailway Company.
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for County Durham is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Houghall are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following newspapers covering county Durham online: