OUSEBURN (LITTLE), a parish comprising the
townships of Kirkby-Hall and Thorp-Underwoods in
the lower, and those of Little Ouseburn and Widdington,
in the tipper, division of the wapentake of CLARO
West riding of the county of YORK, and containing 558
inhabitants, of which number, 293 are in the township
of Little Ouseburn, 5 miles (S.E. by S.) from Aldborough.
The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Richmond,
and diocese of Chester, rated in the king's books
at £3. 8. 4., endowed with £100 and £3 per annum
private benefaction, and £600 royal bounty, and in the
patronage of the Precentor in the Cathedral Church of
York. The church is dedicated to the Holy Trinity.
There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists.
Five poor children are educated for a trifling annuity,
the gift of Elizabeth Colston in 1756.