Hough may refer to: *

Hamstringing Hamstringing is a method of crippling a person or animal so that they cannot walk properly by severing the hamstring tendons in the thigh of the individual. It is used both as a swordfighting strike to incapacitate an enemy combatant, and as a m ...

, or severing the Achilles tendon of an animal * the leg or shin of an animal (in the Scots language), from which the dish potted hough is made * Hough (surname)

Communities

United Kingdom

* Hough, Alderley Edge, a

location In geography, location or place is used to denote a region (point, line, or area) on Earth's surface. The term ''location'' generally implies a higher degree of certainty than ''place'', the latter often indicating an entity with an ambiguous bou ...

in Cheshire * Hough, Argyll and Bute, a location on the island of

Tiree Tiree (; , ) is the most westerly island in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. The low-lying island, southwest of Coll, has an area of and a population of around 650. The land is highly fertile, and crofting, alongside tourism, and fishing are ...

, Scotland * Hough, Cheshire, a village near Crewe in north-west England * Hough End, an area of

Chorlton-cum-Hardy Chorlton-cum-Hardy is a suburban area of Manchester, England, southwest of the Manchester city centre, city centre. Chorlton (ward), Chorlton ward had a population of 14,138 at the United Kingdom Census 2011, 2011 census, and Chorlton Park (w ...

, Manchester, England **location of Hough End Hall *

Hough Green Hough Green is a residential area of the town of Widnes, within the borough of Halton, in the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. Within the boundaries of the historic county of Lancashire, in 2014 Hough Green became a part of the Liverpoo ...

, a residential area of the town of Widnes, England **

Hough Green railway station Hough Green railway station is a railway station to the west of Widnes in Halton, Cheshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade listed building. The station is on the Liverpool–Warrington� ...

Hough-on-the-Hill Hough-on-the-Hill is a village and civil parish in the South Kesteven Non-metropolitan district, district of Lincolnshire, England. The population of the civil parish including Brandon, Lincolnshire, Brandon was 399 at the 2011 census. It is s ...

, a village in Lincolnshire, north-east England *

Thornton Hough Thornton Hough () is a village in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, Wirral district of Merseyside, England. The village lies in the more rural inland part of the Wirral Peninsula and is of pre-Norman conquest of England, Norman Conquest origi ...

, a village in Merseyside, England

United States

''alphabetically by state'' *

Hough Springs, California Hough Springs (formerly, Hough's Mineral Springs) is a set of springs that was turned into a resort in the 19th century in Lake County, California California () is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States that lies on the West Coa ...

, an unincorporated community in Lake County *

Hough, Cleveland Hough (pronounced ) is a neighborhood situated on the East Side of Cleveland, Ohio. Roughly two square miles, the neighborhood is bounded to Superior and Euclid Avenue between East 55th and East 105th streets. Placed between Downtown Clevelan ...

, a neighborhood in Ohio **location of the Hough Riots *

Hough, Oklahoma Hough is a small unincorporated rural community in Texas County, Oklahoma, United States, north-northwest of Guymon. The population was 20 at the time of the 2020 census. History The townsite was officially platted on July 20, 1928. The Bea ...

, an unincorporated community in Texas County * Hough, Vancouver, a neighborhood in Washington

Geographical features

Hough Glacier Hough Glacier () is a glacier in central Doyran Heights in the Sentinel Range of Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica, rising just south of Mount Tuck and flowing east-southeast for between Guerrero Glacier and Remington Glacier. It was first map ...

, in Antarctica *

Hough Peak Hough Peak () is a mountain in the Dix Range of the Adirondacks in the U.S. state of New York. It is the 23rd-highest of the Adirondack High Peaks, with an elevation of . The mountain is located in the High Peaks Wilderness Area, in the town o ...

, in Essex County, New York, U.S. *

Houghs Creek (Delaware River tributary) Houghs Creek (Hough Creek) is a tributary of the Delaware River in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, contained wholly within Upper Makefield Township. History Houghs Creek is named for the first settler on the creek, Richard Hough. It is shown on the ...

, in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, U.S. *

Houghs Neck Houghs Neck is a one-square-mile (2.6 km2) peninsula in Quincy, Massachusetts. It is surrounded by Quincy Bay, Hingham Bay and Rock Island Cove. It is lined by Perry Beach, which runs along Manet Avenue; Nut Island, which is just beyond Gr ...

, a peninsula in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, U.S.

Schools

Hough Graduate School of Business The Hough Graduate School of Business is the home to the graduate business programs of the Warrington College of Business at the University of Florida. All programs are accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. Will ...

, part of the University of Florida *

Thistley Hough Academy Thistley Hough Academy is a coeducational secondary school located in the village of Penkhull in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England. The school was built in 1938 as a girls' grammar school, housed in a classical Art Deco building. The old b ...

, in Staffordshire, England

Other

Hough Priory Hough Priory was a priory in Hough-on-the-Hill, Lincolnshire, England. The manor on which the priory of Hough was afterwards built was granted by Henry I to his abbey of St. Mary de Voto at Cherbourg, for Austin canons. The parent abbey itself at ...

, in Hough-on-the-Hill, Lincolnshire, England *

Hough transform The Hough transform () is a feature extraction technique used in image analysis, computer vision, pattern recognition, and digital image processing. The purpose of the technique is to find imperfect instances of objects within a certain class of ...

, a technique in digital image processing * Hough Windmill, in Swannington, Leicestershire, England {{disambiguation, geo