Odstone

Odstone
Odstone
	Smithy Lane
	Odstone Location within Leicestershire
OS grid reference	SK3907
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 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

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

External links

Website for the people of Odstone

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[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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