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• If you are looking for hills, rivers, castles... or pretty much anything other than the "places" where people live and lived, you need to look in our collection of Historical Gazetteers. This contains the complete text of three gazetteers published in the late 19th century — over 90,000 entries. Although there are no descriptive gazetteer entries for placenames exactly matching your search term (other than those already linked to "places"), the following entries mention "HOUGHTON CONQUEST":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  AMBERLEY	Sussex	Conquest, castellated in 1379, forming a parallelogram, with square towers at the corners, and round towers at the gateway, and seized and dismantled by Waller in 1643. The parish church is variously Norman and early English; and has a fine Norman chancel arch, and a very rich early English south door. The Wild Brook marsh adjacent is flooded in winter, but yields profusion of turf and cranberries in summer; and the river Arun runs through it, and contains here choice salmon peel, which have long been noted as Amberley trout. The parish includes also the hamlet of Rackham. Acres	Imperial
  AMPTHILL	Bedfordshire	Houghton-Conquest, Hawnes, Manlden, Pul loxhill, Westoning, Flitwick, Steppingley, Millbrook and part of Flitton. Acres, 41,551. Poor-rates in 1866, £10,281. Pop. in 1861, 16,970. Houses	Imperial
  DUBLIN	Dublin	DUBLIN , the metropolis of Ireland, and a city and county of itself, in the province of LEINSTER, situated in 53	Lewis:Ireland
  DURHAM	County Durham	DURHAM , a city and a district in the county of Durham, and a diocese in the NE of England. The	Imperial
  ELY	Cambridgeshire	Houghton-Conquest, and Houghton-Gildable; the vicarages of Bedford-St. Paul, Biddenham, Cardington, Cople, Goldington, Kempston, Willington, Wilhampstead, and Wootton	Imperial
  Houghton Conquest	Bedfordshire	Houghton Conquest , par. and vil., Bedfordshire, 2½ miles N. of Ampthill, 3345 ac., pop. 620.	Bartholomew
  HOUGHTON-CONQUEST	Bedfordshire	Conquests; passed, in 1615, to the celebrated Countess of Pembroke, sister of Sir Philip Sidney; went afterwards, through several hands, to the Duke of Bedford; was sold, soon after 1794, to Lord Ossory; has returned to the Duke of Bedford; and is now united to Ampthill Park. The mansion on it was built by the Countess of Pembroke; is said to have been a handsome edifice; was reduced to a shell in 1794; and is now a ruin. James I. was entertained, in 1605, by Sir Richard Conquest, at Houghton	Imperial
  HOUGHTON-GILDABLE	Bedfordshire	HOUGHTON-GILDABLE , a quondam parish in Beds; incorporated, in 1637, with Houghton-Conquest. It still ranks as a rectory, annexed	Imperial
  How End	Bedfordshire	How End , place, Houghton Conquest par., Bedfordshire, near Ampthill.	Bartholomew
  LIVERPOOL	Lancashire	LIVERPOOL , a large seaport town on the S verge of Lancashire; the second for population and for commerce in England	Imperial
  NORFOLK	Norfolk	NORFOLK , a maritime county in the E of England; bounded, on the N W, by the Wash, which divides it	Imperial
  YORK	Yorkshire	conquest; and was long represented by a gate which was taken down a few years prior to 1869. A priory was founded, about the time of the Norman conquest, by R. de Paganel; another priory was founded, in 1202, by H. Murdac; a priory of St. Nicholas was founded before 1405; an Augustinian friary, before 1278; a grey friary, by Henry III.; a black friary, in the time of Henry III., by B. Stapylton; a white friary, in 1255, by De Vesci and Percy; a crutched friary, in the time of Edward II.; a nunnery at Clementhorpe, before	Imperial

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