| Official Name: | Osgathorpe |
| Country: | England |
| Region: | East Midlands |
| Shire County: | Leicestershire |
| Coordinates: | 52.7714°N -1.3641°W |
| Constituency Westminster: | North West Leicestershire |
| Shire District: | North West Leicestershire |
| Static Image Name: | Hallington House in Osgathorpe.jpg |
| Static Image Caption: | Hallington House, Osgathorpe. A Grade II listed building. |
| Population: | 411 |
| Population Ref: | (2011 Census) |
| Post Town: | LOUGHBOROUGH |
| Postcode Area: | LE |
| Postcode District: | LE12 |
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. The civil parish population at the 2011 census was 411.[1]
The parish church is dedicated to Saint Mary the Blessed Virgin and dates from the fourteenth century. It was heavily restored in the nineteenth century, with the addition of a polygonal apse to the chancel. 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 are pleasing north and south windows to the nave and chancel, and in the south wall of the nave can be seen a very unusual hagioscope (or squint), which is set diagonally within the stonework, to allow a view of the altar.
Opposite the church is the village school, built in 1670, with almshouses of the same date. 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 Storey Arms was a popular working class pub but now struggles to attract drinkers due to the clampdown on drink driving and the other pub the Royal Oak closed in 2000.