Odstone

Odstone

Coordinates: 52°39′N 1°25′W / 52.65°N 1.42°W / 52.65; -01.42

Odstone
Odstone is located in Leicestershire
Odstone

 Odstone shown within Leicestershire
OS grid reference SK3907
Shire county Leicestershire
Region East Midlands
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Police Leicestershire
Fire Leicestershire
Ambulance East Midlands
EU Parliament East Midlands
List of places: UK • England • Leicestershire

Odstone is a hamlet forming part of the Shackerstone civil parish in the Hinckley and Bosworth district of Leicestershire, England. It stands on a marked promontory of high ground between two river valleys.

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".[1] Many local towns and villages share a similar Scandinavian heritage.

References

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

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