Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for OSBASTON

OSBASTON, a township chiefly in Cadeby parish, but partly in Market-Bosworth parish, Leicester; 1½ mile N E by E of Market-Bosworth. Acres, 1, 230. Real property, £2, 961. Pop., 228. Houses, 45. The manor, with Osbaston Hall, belongs to T. Cope, Esq. A church was formerly here, but has disappeared.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a township"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Market Bosworth AP/CP       Leicestershire AncC
Place: Osbaston

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