Hitchin Oughton is one of the five electoral wards in

Hitchin Hitchin () is a market town and unparished area in the North Hertfordshire Districts of England, district in Hertfordshire, England, with an estimated population of 35,842. History Hitchin is first noted as the central place of the Hicce peopl ...

, England. It contains the Westmill estate and is named after the

River Oughton The River Oughton is a two mile long tributary of the River Hiz in Hitchin, Hertfordshire. It rises at Oughtonhead and flows north-east between Oughtonhead Common and Oughtonhead Nature Reserve. It forms the boundary of Hitchin parish. The ...

. It invariably returns a Labour councillor.

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Areas of Hitchin Wards of Hertfordshire {{Hertfordshire-geo-stub