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Leicestershire Towns & Parishes

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Osbaston

Description in 1887:
"Osbaston, township, Cadeby par., Leicestershire, 1½ mile NE. of Market Bosworth, 1230 ac., pop. 219; contains Osbaston Hall, seat."
John Bartholomew's "Gazetteer of the British Isles", 1887

Census

• The parish was in the Market Bosworth sub-district of the Market Bosworth Registration District.
  
  
• The 1851 Census for Leicestershire has been indexed by the Leicestershire & Rutland Family History Society. The whole index is available on microfiche. The society has also published it in print.
  
  
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
  
  

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Church History

• The Anglican parish church here was destroyed by 1848.
  
  
• The members of the parish attended church in either Cadeby or Market Bosworth.
  
  

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Church Records

• One should search the registers of both Cadeby and Market Bosworth.
  
  

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Civil Registration

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
  
  
• The parish was in the Market Bosworth sub-district of the Market Bosworth Registration District.
  
  

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Description and Travel.

Osbaston is a village and a parish which lies 114 miles north of London, just off the road (the A447) between Ibstock and Hinckley. The parish covers about 1,300 acres.

If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the A447 trunk road north out of Hinckley and cross the B585 arterial. Obastion will be about 2/3 of a mile on the right.
  
  

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Manors

• Osbaston Hall is a large brick manor in the Elizabethan style and was the residence of Miss COPE in 1849.
  
  
• Cliff House was the seat of William E. OAKELEY in 1881. It was built in the Swiss style, surrounded by lawn and having a good view of the countryside.
  
  

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Maps

• The national grid reference is SK 3304.
  
  
• You'll want an Ordnance Survey Explorer map, which has 2.5 inches to the mile scale.
  
  
• See our Maps page for additional resources.
  
  

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Politics and Governance

• This place was a township in the two parishes of Cadeby and Market Bosworth until December, 1866, when it was formed as a Civil Parish.
  
  
• The parish is in the ancient Sparkenhoe Hundred in the western division of the county.
  
  

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, this parish became part of the Market Bosworth Poorlaw Union.
  
  

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Population

Year	Inhabitants
1841	200
1871	221
1881	219
1891	226
1901	249
1911	307
1921	325
1931	292
1951	211
1961	160

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Schools

• The children of this parish attended schools in Barlestone, Bosworth and Cadeby.
  
  

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