OULTON, a parish in the hundred of MUTFORD-and-LOTHINGLAND, county of SUFFOLK, 3 miles (W.) from Lowestoft, containing 471 inhabitants, exclusively of the house of industry for the hundred, which is in this parish, and contains two hundred and thirty-three inmates. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry ,of Suffolk, and diocese of Norwich, rated in the king's books at £14. 13. 4., and in the patronage ot the Executors of J. Marston, Esq. The church is dedicated to St. Michael. The river Waveney bounds the parish on the west, and receives the surplus water of Lake Lothing on the south.