Hoghton

{{Short description|Village in Lancashire, England}}

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{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2015}}

{{Use British English|date=April 2015}}

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|static_image_name = Holy Trinity Parish Church, Hoghton - geograph.org.uk - 619231.jpg

|static_image_caption = Holy Trinity Parish Church

|official_name= Hoghton

|map_type= Lancashire

| population = 802

| population_ref = (2011 Census)

|os_grid_reference= SD614263

|civil_parish= Hoghton

|shire_district= Chorley

|shire_county= Lancashire

|region= North West England

|country= England

|post_town= PRESTON

|postcode_area= PR

|postcode_district= PR5

|dial_code= 01254

|constituency_westminster= Chorley

|pushpin_map= United Kingdom Borough of Chorley

|pushpin_map_caption= Shown within Chorley Borough

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Hoghton is a small village and civil parish in the Borough of Chorley, Lancashire, England. At the 2011 Census, it had a population of 802.{{NOMIS2011|id=E04005155|title=Hoghton Parish|access-date=27 May 2019}} Brindle and Hoghton ward also includes the parish of Brindle.

Hoghton Tower is a fortified manor house, and the ancestral home of the de Hoghton family from the 12th century.

Also within the parish are the hamlets of Riley Green and Hoghton Bottoms. 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.{{cite book |last=Ash |first=Russell |date=1973 |title=Folklore, Myths and Legends of Britain |publisher=Reader's Digest Association Limited |page=368 |isbn=9780340165973 }}

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.{{cite web|url=http://www.boarsheadhoghton.com/|title=Country Gastro Pub Preston - Gastro Pub Blackburn - The Boars Head|website=The Boars Head Hoghton|access-date=18 November 2018}} The other pub in the village, The Sirloin, dating from 1617, burnt down in early February 2019. It had previously contained an award-winning restaurant. The name derived from a visit to nearby Hoghton Tower by James I in 1617.{{Cite web |last=Earnshaw |first=Tom |date=2021-07-04 |title=Lancs pubs that have burnt down and what has happened to them since |url=https://www.lancs.live/whats-on/food-drink-news/lancashire-pubs-burnt-down-whats-20954954 |access-date=2024-08-04 |website=Lancs Live |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Gee |first=Chris |date=2011-01-23 |title=Award-winning Hoghton restaurant closes |url=https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/8807794.award-winning-hoghton-restaurant-closes/ |access-date=2024-08-04 |website=Lancashire Telegraph |language=en}}