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HOUGHTON-CONQUEST:
Geographical and Historical information from the year 1750.

"HOUGHTON-CONQUEST, With the Park, (Bedfordshire) on the N. side of Ampthil, was the seat of the E. of Ailesbury, and called Conquest from the ancient family of the Conquests. There is a fr. sc. here bel. to Sidney-Sussex-Coll. in Cambridge. Two common fields near this place, called Danes-Fields,are remarkable for many pits of 15 foot diameter."