Odstone, Leicestershire
Historical Description
Odstone, a hamlet and a township in Shackerstone parish, Leicestershire, on an affluent of the river Anker, and on the Ashby-de-la-Zouch Canal, 3½ miles N by W of Market Bosworth. Acreage of township, 1134; population, 170. The manor belongs to Earl Howe.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Leicestershire | |
Civil parish | Shackerstone | |
Hundred | Sparkenhoe | |
Poor Law union | Market-Bosworth |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Odstone from the following:
Land and Property
A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Leicestershire is online.
Maps
Online maps of Odstone 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 Leicestershire newspapers online: