Hoghton

Hoghton is a small village and civil parish in the Borough of Chorley, Lancashire, England.

The villages of Gregson Lane and Coupe Green are sometimes described as lying in Hoghton, although they are outside the parish, forming the ward of Coupe Green and Gregson Lane in the South Ribble district.

A local folk tale tells that two Hoghton poachers once raided a rabbit warren inhabited by fairies.

When they heard the fairies' voices coming from the sacks they were carrying, they fled in terror.

[2] The village has one public house, the Boar's Head, which claims to be one of the final overnight stops of the Pendle Witches before their eventual trials and sentencing at Lancaster in 1612.