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The Ancient Parish of GREAT OUSEBURN
[Transcribed information mainly from the early 1820s]
"GREAT OUSEBURN, a parish-town, in the lower-division of Claro, liberty of the Forest of Knaresborough; 4 miles from Boroughbridge, 7 from Knaresborough, 14 from York. Pop. 437. The Church is a vicarage, dedicated to St. Mary (see Churches for photograph), in the deanry of Boroughbridge, diocese of Chester, value, ~£3. 10s. Patron, the King.""OUSE HEAD, (Obelisk) in the parish of Great Ouseburn; 3¾ miles SE. of Boroughbridge, 7½ from Knaresborough.
Here stands a neat little pillar, which marks the head of the River Ouse. This celebrated head, whose waters would scarcely wet your shoe soles, is a burlesque upon two noble rivers, the Ure and the Swale, by depriving them of their names, and usurping a dignity in favour of a dirty puddle. --Hutton."
[Description(s) edited from various 19th century sources by Colin Hinson © 2013]
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- The following MIs are available on the Kirkheaton.info website (you will need to register (free)):
- The donations to the poor in St. Mary's Church, Great Ouseburn.
- The further donations to the poor in St. Mary's Church, Great Ouseburn.
- Here are 2 photographs of St. Mary's Church, Great Ouseburn:
- View 1, from the churchyard.
- and View2, from the road.
- Internal view looking down the nave
- The East Window
- The font
- Transcript of the entry for Great Ouseburn in the "Collections relative to Churches and Chapels".
- The plaque giving Church enlargement information in St. Mary's Church, Great Ouseburn.
- The whereabouts and dates of the Registers etc. for the Parish of Great Ouseburn.
- The List of Rectors and Curates in St. Mary's Church, Great Ouseburn.
- Transcript of the entry of "professions and trades" in the Baines's Directory and Gazetteer, Vol I, West Riding.
- There is further information about this parish from the National Gazetteer 1868, Yorkshire extracts.
- There is further information about this parish from the Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England, Yorkshire extracts.
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Great Ouseburn to another place.
- For a detailed map of this parish see this parish boundaries map.
- For a more detailed map of the parishes in the riding please see the Yorkshire parish maps page.
- For a more detailed map of the county please see the Yorkshire map page.
- Here is a map showing the wapentakes for the county.
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SE449618 (Lat/Lon: 54.050214, -1.315703), Great Ouseburn which are provided by:
- OpenStreetMap
- Google Maps
- StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
- Bing (was Multimap)
- Old Maps Online
- National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
- Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
- English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
- Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
- GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)
- All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- The World War I Roll of Honour in St. Mary's Church, Great Ouseburn.
- The World War I and II memorial in the churchyard at Great Ouseburn.
- This parish is covered by the following Society:
- A list of those paying the 1379 Subsidy Rolls (Poll Tax) for this parish.