Place:Ousefleet, West Riding of Yorkshire, England

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Ousefleet is a small hamlet now in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England approximately 5 miles (8 km) east of Goole. It is located just south of the River Ouse and north of the A161 road between Goole and Scunthorpe.

It forms part of the new (post 1996) civil parish of Twin Rivers.

Ousefleet was previously a chapelry in the ancient parish of Whitgift, a civil parish that was part of the Goole Rural District in the West Riding of Yorkshire from 1894 to 1974, then in the Boothferry District of the short-lived county of Humberside until 1996.

Research Tips

• GENUKI on Ousefleet. GENUKI includes a passage on Ousefleet in its article on the parish of Whitgift. It gives numerous references to local bodies providing genealogical assistance.
• The FamilySearch wiki on the ecclesiastical parish of Whitgift provides a list of useful resources for the local area.
• A Vision of Britain through Time on Ousefleet.
• A Vision of Britain through Time also provides links to three maps for the Goole Rural District, produced by the United Kingdom Ordnance Survey. These maps expand to a scale that will illustrate small villages and large farms or estates.

• Ordnance Survey West Riding 1888. The "Sanitary Districts (which preceded the rural districts) for the whole of the West Riding.
• Ordnance Survey West Riding South 1900. This map is not equivalent to maps for other parts of the country at this time period and does not show parish boundaries. However, Goole Rural District is clearly shown. It is at the extreme right of the map and much wider than it is long.
• Ordnance Survey West Riding 1944. The urban and rural districts of the whole of the West Riding after the revisions of 1935. This map does show the civil parish boundaries.

Remember that the entire rural district became part of Humberside 1974-1996, but on the abolition of Humberside, some parishes joined Lincolnshire while others joined the East Riding of Yorkshire. This fact is covered on a parish by parish basis.