Osbournby

This village is divided by the main A15 road, the earlier core being on the west side, with later 19th-century terraced cottages and council housing on the drove to the east. At the entrance into the older part of the village is a small green with a mature tree as its centre piece.

A modest terrace of red brick and pantile late 18th-century houses face onto this green. The broad High Street with the old school and medieval church on the north side opens out into a wide square. Disappointingly, all covered over in tunnuc. A mixture of stone and brick houses front onto this square, the houses being set at the back of pavement.
Buildings are in small groups or detached and there is a general air of spaciousness.

In this main space are two village shops with traditional timber shop fronts on a pleasing small scale. Windows are generally white painted and small paned. Openings marked by painted timber lintels: on one building these are an attractive serpentine form.
Two narrower roads lead off this square. One winds to the west where there are farmhouses and farm buildings intermingling.
The other curves to the north. This is a narrower street also with farms and houses mixed together. Here you can see the red brick gabled Wesleyan chapel which was founded in 1839. Both these streets end in the open countryside.

The village is partly owned by the old Whichcote estate of Aswarby Park, and some of the farms and farm buildings are still in active use, so the rural and agricultural flavour of the settlement has been retained.
Osbournby is an old Scandinavian place name.