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Modern 1950s and 1960s houses of various different styles can be seen on the right of Great Houghton High Street in this photograph.

Houghton on the River Test lends its name to one of the most exclusive fishing clubs in the world.

The mill at Houghton was owned by Potto Brown.

The name Houghton, always pronounced `Hoe`ton`, has its origins in Saxon times, although there is evidence that there was a settlement here before the Roman period.

To the left of Market Street, Thomas Houghton`s cotton waste mill has the smaller Spodden Mill to its right- hand side.

Houghton House sits on a hill facing towards Ampthill.

Hidden behind the trees is the parish church of St Michael and All Saints; burial place of Bernard Gilpin (died 1583), cleric, orator, philanthropist, and founder of Houghton Grammar School.

The building on the extreme left is the Bedford Swan Hotel, wherein may be found the staircase extracted from Houghton House in the 18th century.

The Old Cherry Tree Inn, one of two pubs in Great Houghton, is a cosy village hostelry with quaint beams and plenty of character.

Much of the building is of Tudor origin, but later additions are said to include panelling removed from Houghton House.

This chapter ends at Great Houghton, south-east of Northampton.

We are near the long stone road bridge to Houghton, built in 1875 and crossing the tidal River Arun.

Rodes, who was appointed a Judge of the Common Pleas in 1585, also built halls at Hickleton and Great Houghton.

There has been a watermill at Houghton since 974.

Houghton is a hamlet with a long stone bridge across the tidal River Arun.

Amberley church lies between the castle and the village at the western end of a ridge of high ground, which is about one mile north of Houghton Bridge.

Much of the building is of Tudor origin, but later additions are said to include panelling removed from Houghton House (see 39964).

Houghton is a hamlet with a long stone bridge across the tidal River Arun.The inn is a 13th-century timber-framed brick and flint building.

The thatched clock tower at Houghton was erected in 1902 as a memorial to Potto Brown`s son, George.

A Rover 80 is parked to the left of the yellow brick Grosvenor Hotel, the headquarters of the Houghton Club, a fishermen's club controlling fishing on the River Test.

Here on the porte cochere, with the best view of the High Street, is the renowned Houghton Fishing Club's meeting room.

The village shop still has its awning out, but the sign now reads H T Houghton.

At various times Westhoughton has been home to Metal Box, the Houghton Weavers, and rice pudding with a crust on the top, as well as being one of the last bastions of the Pasty Feast.

Clement Houghton lost the use of his other leg at an early age, and travelling from Blackburn with a friend, he skated at Brungerley in the winter of 1895.