Great Ouseburn, West Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Ouseburn, Great, a village and a parish in the W.R. Yorkshire. The village stands 1½ mile W of the river Ouse, 4 miles N by W of Cattal railway station, and 5 SE of Boroughbridge, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under York. The parish comprises 1789 acres; population of the civil parish, 481; of the ecclesiastical, 496. There is a parish council consisting of five members and a chairman. The workhouse of the district is here, is a plain brick building with accommodation for about 100 persons, and at the census of 1891 had 60 inmates. The manor belongs to the Thompson family. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon; net value, £221 with residence. The church is in mixed architecture, and was restored in 1883; consists of nave, aisles, and chancel, with pinnacled tower; and contains several mural monuments. A school for boys and girls was erected in 1854 by the late Mr H. S. Thompson in memory of his father, and is a handsome stone edifice in the Gothic style.
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for the West Riding of Yorkshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Great Ouseburn are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following West Riding newspapers online: