Original sentence: Many local towns share the same Scandinavian heritage.Odstone is a village in Leicestershire, England.Odstone may  be a contraction of the Viking/Saxon "Oden Stone", as it lies in the ancient territory of Danelaw
Edited sentence: Many local towns and villages share a similar Scandinavian heritage.Odstone is a village which stands on a marked promontory of high ground between two river valleys in Leicestershire, England.The village appears in the Domesday Book as Odeston, meaning either "Odd's farm or village", or "settlement on the protruding piece of land", oddr being the Norse for "point"