Houghton (/ˈhoʊtən/ HOH-tən) is a small village and civil parish in the Test Valley district of Hampshire, England.

John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster, a son of Edward III from whom the Plantagenet House of Lancaster was descended, had a palace or hunting lodge in the neighbouring village of King's Somborne and a medieval deer park in the valley here in the fourteenth century.

Some of the remains of the deer park's boundary embankments (or pale) can still be seen near Black Lake Farm as you cross the valley on foot on the Clarendon Way.

The architecture of the village is mainly Hampshire rural vernacular, with some timber-frame and thatch, as well as much brick and slate.

[7] A number of public footpaths intersect in Houghton, including the Test Way and the Clarendon Way, which crosses the River Test at the lovely spreading footbridge known locally as 'Sheep Bridge', a beautiful spot much frequented by swans and ducks and visited by the occasional egret.