Place:East Goscote, Leicestershire, England

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NameEast Goscote
TypeCivil parish
Coordinates52.714°N 1.054°W
Located inLeicestershire, England     (1940 - )
See alsoBarrow upon Soar Rural, Leicestershire, Englandrural district of which it was part 1940-1974
Charnwood District, Leicestershire, Englanddistrict municipality covering the area since 1974
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East Goscote is a modern village and civil parish in the Borough of Charnwood district of Leicestershire, England, just north of the market town of Syston. It is a medium-sized village, with a population measured at 2,866 in the 2011 UK census.

The name is taken from the East Goscote Hundred, one of the old hundreds (an area of land purported to be able to support 100 families) of Leicestershire. East Goscote was the first new village to be created in Leicestershire since Domesday (1086), and is unique in the County.

The village is built on the site of a former British Army supply depot. According to Ministry of Defence (MoD) files, the site was originally constructed in 1940 (finished September 1942) by Holloway Brothers, and was an Agency Filling Factory run by Lever Brothers/Unilever as No.10 Royal Ordnance Factory (10 ROF). At that time, it was known as the Queniborough Depot, since that was the closest village to it. It began production in March/April 1942.

According to English Heritage's reference work Dangerous Energy, it was operating Groups 8-10 of ROF filling types (High Explosives received, mixed, and put into bombs and warheads). By 1944, it was temporarily occupied by the War Office. A report of 1951 has it designated as 78 COSD (Command Ordnance Sub Depot). It was decommissioned in 1959, and subsequently bought for housing development which began in 1962.

For more information, see the EN Wikipedia article East Goscote.

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