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Great Houghton, Northamptonshire

Great Houghton is a village and civil parish in the West Northamptonshire unitary authority area of Northamptonshire, England. The village lies on the edge of Northampton, on the A428 Bedford Road, around east-southeast of the town centre. The population of the civil parish at the 2021 census was 651.

The name "Houghton" means "hill-spur farm/settlement". The village has two pubs and a large village hall and playing fields. It was also the home of Great Houghton School, a private day school which closed in 2014.

The village was struck by an F1/T2 tornado on 23 November 1981, as part of the record-breaking nationwide tornado outbreak on that day.

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