OS Grid Reference: 53°36'N 1°10'W
Name Origin: possibly Old Scandinavian aust-tun eastern homestead, village, or a scandinavianization of Old English east tun with the same meaning.
LAND OF GEOFFREY OF LA GUERCHE
In OSTONE Gytha had 4 carucates of land taxable. Land for 4 ploughs. Geoffrey has 1 plough. 9 villagers and 6 smallholders with 3 ploughs. 3 fisheries, 3s; meadow, 6 acres; woodland pasture 1 league long and 1 wide. Value before 1066 £5; now 30s. Exactions 10s.
In Butterwick 3 carucates of land taxable. A jurisdiction and inland of Ostone. Land for 1 plough. 1 Freeman and 6 villagers have 1 plough. 1 mill, 4s.
The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, ed J.H.F.Brabner, 1895:
Owston, a village, a township, and a parish in Lincolnshire. The village stands in the Isle of Axholme, on the W bank of the river Trent, 3½ miles SE of Epworth, 3½ E of Haxey station on the Spalding and Doncaster section of the Great Eastern and Great Northern Joint Railway, and 7 N of Gainsborough, and is a pleasant place. The township contains also the small town and port of West Ferry, Klacards Ferry, or Owston Ferry, which has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Bawtry. It comprises an area of 5126 acres; population of the civil parish, 1294; of the ecclestiastical, 1325. Owston Place is a chief residence. The Trent is crossed by ferry boats at Owston Ferry. A market and fair were formerly held here. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; gross value £292 with residence, in the gift of the Crown. The church, which stands within the embankments of what was formerly a strong castle of the Mowbrays, is a handsome building of stone and brick, chiefly in the Early English style; consists of nave, aisles, and chancel, with a tower; has a rich stained glass E window, put up in 1836, and five others; and is approached through a beautiful arch, and through a fine avenue of elms, sycamores, and chestnuts. It contains some ancient and interesting tombs and monuments. There is a church burying-ground of half an acre, and a cemetery of 1½ acres with a mortuary chapel. The vicarage of West Batterwick is a separate benefice. There are a Wesleyan chapel and endowed almshouses at Owston, a Primitive Methodist chapel, a public hall, and a reading-room, with billiard-room attached, at Owston Ferry.
Associated Families: Burton Raymond Revil
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