OUSDEN (or OWSDEN) is a parish, in Risbridge hundred, Newmarket union, Clare
rural deanery, Sudbury archdeaconry, and diocese of Ely, West Suffolk, 7 miles
east-by-south from Newmarket, and 10 west-south-west from Bury. The church of
St. Peter is a small building, with a tower and 5bells; it has nave, transept,
chancel, porch and font. The register dates from 1675. The living is a rectory,
valued in 1835 at £285, in the gift of T. J. Ireland, Esq.; the Rev. William
Sutherland McDouall, M.A., of Christ Church, Oxford, is the incumbent, and
chaplain to the Marchioness of Bute. Here is a small Parochial school, and a
small charity, value about £6 yearly. In 1743, Richard Moseley charged a farm
here with the yearly payment of £10 for schooling 20 poor children of this
parish. OuĞden Hall, a noble mansion in the Grecian style of architecture, with
extensive grounds, is the seat of Bulkley Mackworth Praed, Esq., who is lord of
the manor and also the principal owner. The soil is clay and loamy; subsoil,
clay and chalk. Crops are wheat, oats, barley, turnips, &c. The population in
186l was 346, and the area is 1,400 acres.
Parish Clerk, William Tweed.
POST OFFICE.—William Eley, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive from Newmarket at 8.30
a.m.; dispatched at 5 p.m.
Wickhambrook is the nearest money order office
INSURANCE AGENT. — Travellers' & Marine, J. W. Rannow
Parochial School, Mrs. Ann Kemp, mistress
McDouall Rev.WilliamS. M.A.[rector]
Praed Bulkley Mackworth, esq. Ousden hall
Bailey Isaac, blacksmith
Cruthe William, shopkeeper
Drake Henry, cattle dealer
Drake John, butcher
Eley William, shoe maker
Everett Thomas, boot maker
Jillings William, farmer
Jolley Thomas, Fox inn
Pearson Isaac, farmer
Rannow James William, shopkeeper
Rowling Richard, miller
Sturgeon Charles, farmer
Swann Henry, pig dealer
Turner John, farmer
Turner William, miller
Tweed William, wheelwright
Wiseman William H. cooper
Woollard Martha (Mrs.), shopkeeper