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  Unit Name	Type of Unit	Containing Unit (and Type)
  GLASS HOUGHTON LG_Ward	Parish-level Unit	CASTLEFORD UD/MB (Local Government District)

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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 "GLASS HOUGHTON":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  CASTLEFORD		glass-making, and earthenware manufacture are largely carried on; and have occasioned much recent increase of population. A railway hence to Ardsley was opened in May, 1869. Acres, 540. Real property, £9,023. Pop., 3,876. Houses, 813. The parish includes also the township of Glass-Houghton	Imperial
  DARLINGTON		glass manufactures, and locomotive engine establishments; and much trade is done in connexion with railway transit, and through contiguity with the mining districts of South Durham, West Durham and Cleveland. The famous bull "Comet" was sold here for £1, 050. The town gives the title of Earl to the Duke of Cleveland; and it sends one member to parliament. Pop. in 1851, 11, 228; in 1861, 15, 781. Houses, 2, 683. The township contains also the hamlet of Oxneyfield. Acres, 3, 569. Real property, £243, 073; of which £186, 642 are in railways, £429 in quarries	Imperial
  DUBLIN		DUBLIN , the metropolis of Ireland, and a city and county of itself, in the province of LEINSTER, situated in 53	Lewis:Ireland
  Durham		glass, and earthenware; shipbuilding and sail-making; paper-making; woollen and worsted stuffs, &c. There are also large ironworks and machine factories. Durham has great facilities of transport. The co. comprises 4 wards, 269 pars., the parl. and mun. bors. of Darlington, Durham, Gateshead, Hartlepool, South Shields (1 member each), and Sunderland (2 members), the greater part of the parl. and mun. bor. of Stockton (1 member), and the mun. bor. of Jarrow. It is entirely in the diocese of Durham. For parl. purposes it is divided into 8 divisions, viz., Jarrow, Houghton	Bartholomew
  ELY		ELY , a city and several territorial tracts in Cambridgeshire; and a diocese in the counties of Cambridge, Bedford, Huntingdon, Norfolk	Imperial
  Glasgow		Glasgow, the commercial and manufacturing capital of Scotland, and, in point of wealth, population, and importance, the second city of	Groome
  Glass Houghton		Glass Houghton , township, Castleford par., E. div. West-Riding Yorkshire, 2 miles NE. of Pontefract, 1079 ac., pop. 1049; P.O.	Bartholomew
  Houghton, Glass		Houghton, Glass , township and vil., Castleford par., E. div. West-Riding Yorkshire, 2 miles NW. of Pontefract, 1079 ac., pop. 1049; P.O.	Bartholomew
  HOUGHTON-GLASS		HOUGHTON-GLASS , a township in Castleford parish, W. R. Yorkshire; 2 miles NW of Pontefract. Acres, 1, 500. Real property	Imperial
  LIVERPOOL		Houghton, Esq., who also endowed it; is crowned by a large dome, surmounted by a lantern, with exterior circular gallery, commanding a fine view of the town; and is fitted interiorly with two rows of galleries, lower and upper. There is also a church of the same name in Everton. St. Philip's church stands in Hardman-street; was built at a cost of about £12,000; and is in the pointed style, of painted brick and ornamental cast-iron. St. Luke's church stands at the N end of Berry-street, fronting the end of Bold-street	Imperial
  NEWPORT-PAGNELL		glass windows; and was thoroughly restored in 1828. The churchyard contains an epitaph by Cowper to T. A. Hamilton. The dissenting chapels are Independent, Baptist, Quaker, Primitive Methodist, and Wesleyan. A theological academy was founded in 1764, but is now extinct. The public cemetery is pleasantly situated near the church; was opened in 1861; and has a neat brick mortuary chapel. The charity school was founded by Dr. Atterbury, brother of Bishop Atterbury; is for 20 girls; and has a land-endowment in Great Houghton	Imperial
  NORFOLK		NORFOLK , a maritime county in the E of England; bounded, on the N W, by the Wash, which divides it	Imperial
  YORK		YORK , a city, a district, an ainsty, and a diocese, in Yorkshire. The city stands on Watling-street, on the	Imperial

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