Hough may refer to: * Hamstringing, or severing the Achilles tendon of an animal * the leg or

shin Shin may refer to: Biology * The front part of the human leg below the knee * Shinbone, the tibia, the larger of the two bones in the leg below the knee in vertebrates Names * Shin (given name) (Katakana: シン, Hiragana: しん), a Japanese ...

of an animal (in the Scots language), from which the dish

potted hough Head cheese (Dutch: ''hoofdkaas'') or brawn is a cold cut terrine or meat jelly that originated in Europe. It is made with flesh from the head of a calf or pig (less commonly a sheep or cow), typically set in aspic, and usually eaten cold, at ...

is made *

Hough (surname) Hough is an English surname that is also used in Ireland as a variant of Haugh. People with this surname may pronounce it as "how" () or "huff" (). Notable people with the surname include: Authors and writers * Barrie Hough (1953–2004), South A ...

Communities

United Kingdom

* Hough, Alderley Edge, a location in Cheshire * Hough, Argyll and Bute, a location on the island of Tiree, Scotland * Hough, Cheshire, a village near Crewe in north-west England * Hough End, an area of Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester, England **location of Hough End Hall *

Hough Green Hough Green is a residential area of the town of Widnes, within the borough of Halton, in the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. Historically, it was part of Lancashire until 1974. From 2014, Hough Green became a part of the Liverpool City R ...

, a residential area of the town of Widnes, England ** Hough Green railway station * Hough-on-the-Hill, a village in Lincolnshire, north-east England * Thornton Hough, a village in Merseyside, England

United States

''alphabetically by state'' * Hough Springs, California, an unincorporated community in Lake County * Hough, Cleveland, a neighborhood in Ohio **location of the Hough Riots *

Hough, Oklahoma Hough is a small unincorporated rural community in Texas County, Oklahoma, United States, north-northwest of Guymon. The townsite was officially platted on July 20, 1928. The Beaver, Meade and Englewood Railroad built through the area in the 1 ...

, an unincorporated community in Texas County

Geographical features

Hough Glacier Hough Glacier () is a glacier in central Doyran Heights in the Sentinel Range of Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica, rising just south of Mount Tuck and flowing east-southeast for between Guerrero Glacier and Remington Glacier. It was first map ...

, in Antarctica *

Hough Peak Hough Peak () is a mountain located in Essex County, New York. The mountain, part of the Dix Range, is named after Franklin B. Hough (1822–1885), the first chief of the United States Division of Forestry, and sometimes called the "father o ...

, in Essex County, New York, U.S. *

Houghs Creek (Delaware River tributary) Houghs Creek (Hough Creek) is a tributary of the Delaware River in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, contained wholly within Upper Makefield Township. History Houghs Creek is named for the first settler on the creek, Richard Hough. It is shown on the ...

, in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, U.S. * Houghs Neck, a peninsula in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, U.S.

Schools

* Hough Graduate School of Business, part of the University of Florida * Thistley Hough Academy, in Staffordshire, England

Other

Hough Priory Hough Priory was a priory in Hough-on-the-Hill, Lincolnshire, England. The manor on which the priory of Hough was afterwards built was granted by Henry I to his abbey of St. Mary de Voto at Cherbourg, for Austin canons. The parent abbey itself a ...

, in Hough-on-the-Hill, Lincolnshire, England *

Hough transform The Hough transform is a feature extraction technique used in image analysis, computer vision, and digital image processing. The purpose of the technique is to find imperfect instances of objects within a certain class of shapes by a voting pro ...

, a technique in digital image processing *

Hough Windmill Hough Windmill is a tower windmill in Swannington, Leicestershire, England built in the late 18th century on the boundary with the village of Thringstone. The mill served a coal mining community. The structure is surrounded by the remains of an ...

, in Swannington, Leicestershire, England {{disambiguation, geo