Great Ouse

English

Proper noun

Great Ouse

  1. A river in England, which flows from Northamptonshire, through Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Norfolk, to The Wash and the North Sea.
    • 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications, page 223, about Hemingford Grey:
      Graceful old houses stand by the edge of the Great Ouse and gaze down at the houseboats, skiffs and motor-cruisers that moor there.
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