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Osgathorpe, Leicestershire

Historical Description

Osgathorpe, a village and a parish in Leicestershire. The village stands on an affluent of the river Soar, 2 miles NNE of Swannington station on the Leicester and Burton branch of the M.R,, and 5 ENE of Ashby-de-la-Zouch, and is a pleasant place. It has a post office under Loughborough; money order office, Whitwick; telegraph office, Worthington (R.S.) The parish comprises 923 acres; population, 306. There is a parish council consisting of five members. The manor belongs to the Story family. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough; gross value, £218 with residence. The church, which is of the 13th century, is a beautiful building of stone in the Early and Late Decorated styles; was restored, with addition of apsidal E end, in 1861; has a spire-shaped turret with two bells, and contains a restored ancient octagonal font. A valuable charity, founded by Mr Thomas Harley of Osgathorpe in 1683, comprises an endowed free school in Osgathorpe for fifty boys, and a residence in the same parish for six widows of clergymen, who have each pensions of £70 yearly. Under the same trustees is Alsop's Charity for the widow of a clergyman, consisting of a cottage home and a yearly pension of £17.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountyLeicestershire 
Ecclesiastical parishOsgarthorpe St. Mary 
HundredWest Goscote 
Poor Law unionAshby-de-la-Zouch 

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.


Church Records

Findmypast, in association with the Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland, have the following parish records online for Osgathorpe:

BaptismsBannsMarriagesBurials
1680-18881754-19401683-19311680-1979

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Osgathorpe 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 Osgathorpe are available from a number of sites:


Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Leicestershire newspapers online:

DistrictNorth West Leicestershire
CountyLeicestershire
RegionEast Midlands
CountryEngland
Postal districtLE12
Post TownLoughborough

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