Osgathorpe

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.

[1] The parish church is dedicated to Saint Mary the Blessed Virgin and dates from the fourteenth century.

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 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'.

The now dried up Charnwood Forest Canal south of Osgathorpe.
Church of Saint Mary the Blessed Virgin