OSGARTHORPE, a parish in the western division of the hundred of GOSCOTE, county of LEICESTER, 5 miles (E. N. E.) from Ashby de la Zouch, containing 352 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Leicester, and diocese -of Lincoln, rated in the king's books a.t £7, and in the patronage of the Marquis of Hastings. The church is dedicated to St. Mary. A free school was erected by Thomas Hardy, Esq., who, in 1670, vested in trustees so much money as would purchase lands to the value of £ TOO a year, for the maintenance of a schoolmaster and six clergymen's widows. A canal passes from Barrow Hill, in this parish, crosses the parish of Sheepshead, and terminates in that of Loughborough.