Hough may refer to: Hamstringing, or severing the Achilles tendon of an animal the leg or shin of an animal (in the Scots language), from which the dish potted hough is made Hough (surname) 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, 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, an unincorporated community in Texas County Geographical features Hough Glacier, in Antarctica Hough Peak, in Essex County, New York, U.S. Houghs Creek (Delaware River tributary), 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, in Hough-on-the-Hill, Lincolnshire, England Hough transform, a technique in digital image processing Hough Windmill, in Swannington, Leicestershire, England