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′N1°25′W / 52.65°N 01.42°W / 52.65; -01.42

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

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.

External links

• Website for the people of Odstone