IVES, St, a market-town of the county of Huntingdon, in the hundred of Hurstingstone, sixty miles from London. It is in a rich plain, through which the navigable river Ouse flows, and is a well-built town, with a good market on Monday. The inhabitants amounted in 1801 to 2099, in 1811 to 2426, in 1821 to 2777, and in 1831 to 3314.