Hose is a village and former

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...

, now in the parish of

Clawson, Hose and Harby Clawson, Hose and Harby is a civil parish in Leicestershire, England, forming part of the Melton district. It contains the villages of Harby, Hose A hose is a flexible hollow tube or pipe designed to carry fluids from one location to another ...

, in the

Borough of Melton Melton is a local government district with borough status in north-eastern Leicestershire, England. It is named after its only town, Melton Mowbray. The borough also includes numerous villages and surrounding rural areas. The north of the dis ...

and the county of

Leicestershire Leicestershire ( ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the East Midlands of England. It is bordered by Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire to the north, Rutland to the east, Northamptonshire to the south-east, Warw ...

, England. The town of

Melton Mowbray Melton Mowbray () is a market town in the Borough of Melton, Melton district in Leicestershire, England, north-east of Leicester and south-east of Nottingham. It lies on the River Eye, Leicestershire, River Eye, known below Melton as the Rive ...

is six miles (10 km) to the south.Hose Village websit
Retrieved 8 April 2018.
In 1931 the civil parish had a population of 421, the 2011 population of the built-up area being 580. Rose and Crown Hose

Location and amenities

Hose was merged with Harby and

Long Clawson Long Clawson is a village and former civil parish, now included in that of Clawson, Hose and Harby, in the Borough of Melton, Melton district and the county of Leicestershire, England. Being in the Vale of Belvoir, the village is enclosed by far ...

on 1 April 1936. It lies in the north-east of the county, in the

Vale of Belvoir The Vale of Belvoir ( ) is in Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire, England. The name is from the Norman-French for "beautiful view". Extent and geology The vale is a tract of low ground rising east-north-east, drained by the ...

, close to the route of the defunct

Grantham Canal The Grantham Canal ran 33 miles (53 km) from Grantham through 18 locks to West Bridgford, where it joined the River Trent. It was built primarily for the transportation of coal to Grantham. It opened in 1797 and its profitability steadil ...

, which has been designated a

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and underwent a campaign of environmental dredging and planting in 2014. The weekday bus service No. 24, between Melton and Bottesford and Bingham runs through the village. All three termini have railway stations. The village has a medieval

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church, a

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chapel, a shop and sub-post office, a village hall with playing fields, and a public house, the Rose and Crown. The village green is known as the Park, and includes the premises of a

blacksmith A blacksmith is a metalsmith who creates objects primarily from wrought iron or steel, but sometimes from #Other metals, other metals, by forging the metal, using tools to hammer, bend, and cut (cf. tinsmith). Blacksmiths produce objects such ...

Toponymy

The village's name derives from the

Old English Old English ( or , or ), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the Early Middle Ages. It developed from the languages brought to Great Britain by Anglo-S ...

word meaning 'the hill spurs'.

Origins

A group of

Bronze Age The Bronze Age () was a historical period characterised principally by the use of bronze tools and the development of complex urban societies, as well as the adoption of writing in some areas. The Bronze Age is the middle principal period of ...

burial mounds of about 1500 BC have been identified a mile to the south of the parish boundary. Signs of more extensive occupation date from the Roman period of the 1st–4th centuries AD. The village probably existed from the late Saxon period. Hose was cited as "Hoches" and "Howes" in the Domesday Book of 1086.

References

Villages in Leicestershire Former civil parishes in Leicestershire Borough of Melton {{Leicestershire-geo-stub

Location and amenities

Toponymy

Origins

See also

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