ORSTON, a parish in the northern division of the
wapentake of BINGHAM, county of NOTTINGHAM, 6
miles (E. by N.) from Bingham, containing, with a part
of Flawborough chapelry, 391 inhabitants. The living
is a discharged vicarage, to which is annexed the perpetual
curacies of Scanington and Thoroton, in the arch-,
deaconry of Nottingham, and diocese of York, rated in
the king's books at £ 12. 4. 7, and in the patronage of
the Dean of Lincoln. The church is dedicated to St,
Mary. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists.
The small river Smite runs through the parish;
and here is a powerful chalybeate spring impregnated
with sulphur. Limestone abounds here. Orston is in
the honour of Tutbury, duchy of Lancaster, and within
the jurisdiction of a court of pleas held at Tutbury
every third Tuesday, for the recovery of debts under
40s.