Ousden, Suffolk
Historical Description
Ousden, a village and a parish in Suffolk. The village stands 1½ mile E of the boundary with Cambridgeshire, 5f miles S by W of Higham station on the Newmarket and Bury section of the G.E.R., and 6½ ESE of Newmarket, and has a post office under Newmarket; money order office, Wickham Brook; telegraph office, Dalham. The parish comprises 1382 acres; population of the civil parish, 277; of the ecclesiastical, 285. The manor, with Ousden Hall and most of the land, belongs to the Mackworth Praed family. The hall is an elegant mansion in the Grecian style, and has extensive grounds. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely; net value, about £200 with residence. The church is a building of flint and stone in the Norman style, and consists of nave, transept, and chancel, with porch and tower. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Suffolk | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Ousden St. Peter | |
Hundred | Risbridge | |
Poor Law union | Newmarket |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Ousden from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Ousden, or Owsden (St. Peter))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Suffolk is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Ousden 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 Suffolk papers online: