Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for ODESTONE

ODESTONE, a hamlet in Shackerstone parish, Leicester; on an affluent of the river Anker, and on the Ashby-de-la-Zouch canal, 3¼ miles N by W of Market-Bosworth. Acres, 733. Real property, £2, 988. Pop., 184. Houses, 38. The manor belongs to Earl Howe.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a hamlet"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Shackerstone AP/CP       Leicestershire AncC
Place: Odstone

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