Osgathorpe
Hallington House, Osgathorpe. A Grade II listed building.
Osgathorpe is located in Leicestershire
Osgathorpe
Osgathorpe
Location within Leicestershire
Population411 (2011 Census)
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townLOUGHBOROUGH
Postcode districtLE12
PoliceLeicestershire
FireLeicestershire
AmbulanceEast Midlands
UK Parliament
The now dried up Charnwood Forest Canal south of Osgathorpe.
Church of Saint Mary the Blessed Virgin

Osgathorpe is a small village which lies in a fold of the hills in North West Leicestershire, England, and is about a quarter of a mile from the A512 Coalville to Loughborough Road. The civil parish population at the 2011 census was 411.[1]

The parish church is dedicated to Saint Mary the Blessed Virgin and dates from the fourteenth century. It was heavily restored in the nineteenth century, with the addition of a polygonal apse to the chancel. A tower with a small pyramid turret was built at the south west corner of the church in around 1930 and contains two bells, which are rung using a clocking method. There are pleasing north and south windows to the nave and chancel, and in the south wall of the nave can be seen a very unusual hagioscope (or squint), which is set diagonally within the stonework, to allow a view of the altar.

Opposite the church is the village school, built in 1670, with almshouses of the same date. There is also a good example of a sixteenth-century yeoman farmer's house just southwest of the church, with a fine Swithland slate roof.[2]

Remains of a stretch of the long-abandoned Charnwood Forest Canal can be seen alongside a footpath to the south of the village, running from Thringstone to an area known locally as 'The Snarrows'.

The Storey Arms was a popular working class pub but now struggles to attract drinkers due to the clampdown on drink driving and the other pub the Royal Oak closed in 2000.

Births

References

  1. ↑ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 19 June 2016.
  2. ↑ W. G. Hoskins, A Shell Guide to Leicestershire (1970)
  3. 1 2 W. D. Elcock. Cómo se cazan las palabras. Artículos sobre el aragonés (1935-1958). Zaragoza: Aladrada Ediciones, 2018. ISBN 978-84-947712-5-5
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