OWSTON, a parish in the western division of the
wapentake of MANLEY, parts of LINDSEY, county of
LINCOLN, 1 mile (N.) from Gainsborough, containing,
with the chapelry of West Butterwick, and the township
of Kelfield, 1969 inhabitants. The living is a discharged
vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Stow, and diocese of
Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £19. 10., endowed
with £400 private benefaction, and £ 1600 parliamentary
grant, and in the patronage of the Archbishop of York.
The church is dedicated to St. Martin. Near Millwood
park a Carthusian monastery was founded, about 1395,
by Thomas Moubray, Earl of Nottingham, afterwards
Duke of Norfolk: it was dedicated to St. Mary, St. John
the Evangelist, and St. Edward the Confessor, and at
the dissolution had a revenue of £290. 11. 7.