Talk:Houghton, Cambridgeshire

"There used to be an old piece of film footage taken by the Houghton Scout group of the village." - hahaha! More of this please! Rob (talk) 19:04, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

Film last shown c1985 at houghton scout hut. Must have been filmed by scouts. A silent story about a baddie and how the boyscouts overcome him. It showed boys running along the now disused trainline and iam sure even an actual steam train passing through the village. One boy escapes from a tied sack. It or possibly another film showed the ?1950s flood and people in boats on the village green floating past the clock tower. All black and white of course. Just possible that film is somewhere in village, possibly retired scoutleaders or the last farming family. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.43.45.192 (talk) 03:13, 31 July 2011 (UTC)

Pronunciation
The article (IPA transcription) says the first syllable rhymes with boat. Can someone who knows confirm that this is correct? (I came to find out if the first syllable rhymes with ought or with out - a rhyme with boat wasn't even on my list of possibilities and strikes me as a bit unlikely.) Daffy2 (talk) 17:45, 11 January 2015 (UTC)


 * This suggests that a rhyme with boat is correct for Houghton-le-Spring, Sunderland. Of course this Houghton might be different. 86.13.184.107 (talk) 16:35, 23 October 2021 (UTC)

A county? Really?
"Houghton is in the civil parish of Houghton and Wyton. It is within Huntingdonshire, a non-metropolitan district of Cambridgeshire, and is a historic county of England."

With the present syntax this means that Houghton is a historic county, which I find surprising to say the least. I suspect it is meant to mean that Huntingdonshire is a historic county - if so the sentence needs rewriting to give it that meaning.

--86.13.184.107 (talk) 16:39, 23 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Fixed. Nedrutland (talk) 10:02, 1 December 2021 (UTC)