Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for OUSE (Little)

OUSE (Little), a chapelry in Hilgay parish, Norfolk. It comprises a detached part of the parish, on the Little Ouse river and on the S border of the county; and was constituted in 1865. Post-town, Downham. Pop., not separately returned. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Ely. Value, £280. Patron, the Bishop of Ely. See Hilgay.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Norfolk AncC
Place names: LITTLE OUSE     |     OUSE     |     OUSE LITTLE
Place: Little Ouse

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