OUSE, Great, another river of England, rises near Brackley, Northamptonshire, and flows in a very winding course, dividing for a short distance the counties of Oxford
and Buckingham, and flowing in succession through Buckingham, Bedford, Huntingdon, Cambridge, and Norfolk, until it falls into the Wash, after a course of 160 miles, about two-thirds of which is navigable. It is the most meandering of English rivers, and the one that traverses the greatest extent of level country. The towns of Buckingham, Bedford, Huntingdon, and Ely, are on its banks. Its principal tributaries are the Old Nen, Cam, Little Ouse, Stoke, and Nar.