OUSTON, a parish in the hundred of GARTREE, county of LEICESTER, 8 miles (S. by E.) from Melton- Mowbray, containing, with the hamlet of Newbold, 212 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Leicester, and diocese of Lincoln, endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Rev. Henry Palmer. The church, dedicated to St. Andrew, formerly belonged to a small priory of canons regular of the order of St. Augustine, which was founded here, in the time of Henry II., by Sir Robert Grimbald, and possessed, at the dissolution, a revenue of £ 173. 18. 9.