Osgodby (Lenton), Lincolnshire

Historical Description

Osgodby, a township in Lenton parish, Lincolnshire, 1½ mile S of Lenton. Acreage, 1113; population, 49. Osgodby Hall, an ancient Tudor mansion, the property of the Earl of Ancaster, is now occupied as a farmhouse.

Maps

Online maps of Osgodby (Lenton) are available from a number of sites:

• Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• Google Streetview.
• National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
• OpenStreetMap.
• old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
• Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Lincolnshire papers online:

• Grantham Journal
• Grimsby Daily Telegraph
• Lincolnshire Chronicle
• Lincolnshire Echo
• Lincolnshire Free Press
• Louth and North Lincolnshire Advertiser
• Stamford Mercury