OS grid reference SK3907 Country England Postcode district CV13 Shire county Leicestershire | Region East Midlands Sovereign state United Kingdom Police Leicestershire Post town Nuneaton | |
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Odstone is a hamlet forming part of the Shackerstone (where the population is included) civil parish in the Hinckley and Bosworth district of Leicestershire, England. It stands on a marked promontory of high ground between two river valleys.
Map of Odstone, Nuneaton, UK
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". Many local towns and villages share a similar Scandinavian heritage.
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