can bring severe flooding to settlements. In recent years York, Selby and villages in between have been flooded.

Sources

The traditional source of the Ouse is in the village of Great Ouseburn, and is marked by a stone column reading "OUSE RIVER HEAD... OUSEGILL SPRING Ft. YORK 13 miles BOROUGHBRIDGE 4 miles". The site is 35 m from the present course of Ouse Gill Beck, a small stream earlier known as Usekeld Beck, meaning

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