Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for OUSEBURN (Little)

OUSEBURN (Little), a village, a township, and a parish in Great Ouseburn district, W. R. Yorkshire. The village stands ¾ of a mile S of Great Ouseburn village, and 3¼ N by W of Cattal r. station; and has a post-office under York. The township comprises 820 acres. Real property, £1, 840. Pop., 281. Houses, 61. The parish contains also the townships of Kirkby-Hall, Thorpe-Underwoods, and Widdington. Acres, 4,066. Real property, £6, 812. Pop., 543. Houses, 97. Kirkby Hall is the seat of H. S. Thompson, Esq.; Moat Hall, of the Misses Thompson. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £250.* Patron, the Bishop of Ripon. The church is later English, in tolerable condition; and it consists of nave, aisles, and chancel, with a tower. There is a Wesleyan chapel.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village, a township, and a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Little Ouseburn CP/AP       Great Ouseburn RegD/GilU/PLU       Yorkshire AncC
Place names: LITTLE OUSEBURN     |     OUSEBURN     |     OUSEBURN LITTLE
Place: Little Ouseburn

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