The church at Owston has Norman roots with most other periods represented. The church was passed to the Cannons of Welbeck Abbey in 1396 (Symonds and Cooper 1995) and soon after the archbishop of York decreed that the vicar of the church should be provided with ' a manse consisting of a hall, chamber, kitchen, and stable with an adjoining garden or close' (ibid, 7). The present vicarage is more recent but sits within a plot of older enclosure once known as the 'vicar ing' (ibid). In the garden of the vicarage and to the field to the south are extant fishpond features which may relate either to an earlier manorial or monastic foundation. Unknown legibility of coherent earlier landscape traces