OUTWELL (CAMBS.)

"OUTWELL, is a village and civil parish on the navigable river Nene, which divides the counties of Norfolk and Cambridge; itn is 7 miles west from Downham tation on the Ely and Lynn section of the London and North Eastern railway, and 5½ south-east from Wisbech, in the South Western division of the county (Norfolk), hundred and petty sessional division of Clackclose, union county court district, rural deanery and archdeaconry of Wisbech and diocese of Ely."

"For ecclesiastical purposes Outwell is in Cambridgeshire and Norfolk."

"The soil is loam and silt; subsoil clay. The chief crops are wheat, oats, potatoes and fruit. The area is 2,454 acres of land and 40 of water; the population in 1921 was 483 in the civol parish and 1,472 in the ecclesiastical parish, which extends into Cambs."
[Kelly's Directory - Norfolk - 1929]

Census

The Census Records from 1841-1891 can be found in the Cambridge Record Office and also in the Wisbech Library. In addition the 1841 and 1851 Census for Outwell is available in full transcript form, on microfiche, from the Cambridgeshire Family History Society Bookstall.

Directories

The "1839 Pigot's Directory of Cambridgeshire" for Outwell index of Inns & Hotels, Taverns and Public Houses, Brewers & Maltsters + Wine & Spirit Merchants.

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[Last updated 13 October 2003 Martin Edwards]