Odstone

Odstone
Odstone
	Smithy Lane
	Odstone Location within Leicestershire
OS grid reference	SK3907
Civil parish	Shackerstone;
District	Hinckley and Bosworth;
Shire county	Leicestershire;
Region	East Midlands;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Nuneaton
Postcode district	CV13
Police	Leicestershire
Fire	Leicestershire
Ambulance	East Midlands
	List of places UK England Leicestershire 52°39′N 1°25′W / 52.65°N 01.42°W

Odstone is a hamlet and former civil parish, now in the parish of Shackerstone, in the Hinckley and Bosworth district of Leicestershire, England. It stands on a marked promontory of high ground between two river valleys. In 1931 the parish had a population of 142.^[1]

The village appears in the Domesday Book as Odeston, meaning either "Odd's farm or village", or "settlement on the protruding piece of land", oddr being the Old Norse for "point".^[2] Many local towns and villages share a similar Scandinavian heritage.

Odstone became a parish in 1866, on 1 April 1935 the parish was abolished and merged with Shackerstone.^[3]

References

^ "Population statistics Odstone Hmlt/CP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 31 December 2022.
^ Watts, Victor et al., (2004) The Cambridge Dictionary of Place Names, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 0-521-36209-1
^ "Relationships and changes Odstone Hmlt/CP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 31 December 2022.

External links

Website for the people of Odstone

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[1] "Population statistics Odstone Hmlt/CP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 31 December 2022.

[2] Watts, Victor et al., (2004) The Cambridge Dictionary of Place Names, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 0-521-36209-1

[3] "Relationships and changes Odstone Hmlt/CP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 31 December 2022.

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