River, central and eastern England. It rises in Northamptonshire and flows 156 mi (251 km) past Buckingham, Bedford, Huntington, and St. Ives to Earith, then to the North Sea. Locks make the river navigable upstream to Bedford.

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• River Ouse, Yorkshire
• River Great Ouse in East Anglia
• River Little Ouse, a tributary of the River Great Ouse
• River Ouse, Sussex in East Sussex
• The Ouse, an estuary on Shapinsay, Orkney Islands

There is also a town named Ouse:

• Ouse, Tasmania, Australia

See also

• Rivers of the United Kingdom