Osgathorpe
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Osgathorpe is a small village which lies in a fold of the hills in North West Leicestershire, England, and is about a quarter of a mile from the A512 Coalville to Loughborough Road. The civil parish population at the 2011 census was 411.[1]
The parish church is dedicated to Saint Mary the Blessed Virgin and dates from the fourteenth century. It was heavily restored in the nineteenth century, with the addition of a polygonal apse to the chancel. A tower with a small pyramid turret was built at the south west corner of the church in around 1930 and contains two bells, which are rung using a clocking method. There are pleasing north and south windows to the nave and chancel, and in the south wall of the nave can be seen a very unusual hagioscope (or squint), which is set diagonally within the stonework, to allow a view of the altar.
Opposite the church is the village school, built in 1670, with almshouses of the same date. There is also a good example of a sixteenth-century yeoman farmer's house just southwest of the church, with a fine Swithland slate roof.[2]
Remains of a stretch of the long-abandoned Charnwood Forest Canal can be seen alongside a footpath to the south of the village, running from Thringstone to an area known locally as 'The Snarrows'.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
The Storey Arms was a popular working class pub but now struggles to attract drinkers due to the clampdown on drink driving and the other pub the Royal Oak closed in 2000.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Births
- Template:Interlanguage link, 11 December 1910.[3] PhD Romance specialist on Béarnese and Aragonese of the Spanish and French central valleys of the Pyrenees. Died in London on 7 October 1960.[3]
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- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ W. G. Hoskins, A Shell Guide to Leicestershire (1970)
- ↑ a b W. D. Elcock. Cómo se cazan las palabras. Artículos sobre el aragonés (1935-1958). Zaragoza: Aladrada Ediciones, 2018. Template:ISBN