Rosliston

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Rosliston
Rosliston has a shop unlike many surrounding villages^[1].
Rosliston shown within Derbyshire
OS grid reference	SK242167
District	South Derbyshire
Shire county	Derbyshire
Region	East Midlands
Constituent country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	SWADLINCOTE
Postcode district	DE12
Police	Derbyshire
Fire	Derbyshire
Ambulance	East Midlands
European Parliament	East Midlands
List of places: UK • England • Derbyshire

Coordinates: 52°44′53″N 1°38′31″W / 52.748, -1.642

Rosliston is a small village in South Derbyshire, England close to the county boundaries of Leicestershire and Staffordshire.

It is within The National Forest and just outside the village is the Rosliston Forestry Centre. The two village pubs are called the Bulls Head and the Plough Inn. In the Domesday Book the manor was called Redlauseton^[2] when it belonged to William the Conqueror^[3] and included a church and a mill^[4].

1 Features
2 Notable residents
3 References
4 External links
5 See also

[edit] Features

Rosliston is many about 1 mi (1.6 km) long and 1/2 mi (0.80 km) wide. The main features are St. Mary's Church, Rosliston Forestry Centre, the two pubs (The Bull's Head and The Plough), Rosliston Primary School and The Co-Op.