Odstone

Odstone

Smithy Lane
Odstone
Odstone shown within Leicestershire
OS grid reference SK3907
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town Nuneaton
Postcode district CV13
Police Leicestershire
Fire Leicestershire
Ambulance East Midlands
EU Parliament East Midlands

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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