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Orston

"Orston Parish includes the townships and chapelries of Scarrington, Thoroton, and also part of Flawborough, which is mostly in Staunton parish, in the hundred of Newark. It contains 868 inhabitants and 2,150 acres of land, in the vale of the Smite river. Orston and the two chapelries maintain their poor separately, and in the population returns are entered as three distinct parishes, though they have long been united under the same pastor.
Orston village and township contains 1,850 acres of land, on the south side of the Smite, 5 miles east of Bingham. It was enclosed in 1796, when 272a 2r 31p were allotted to the appropriators, and 68a 3r 20p to the vicar, as a commutation for all the tithes. Earl Manvers is lord of the manor, and owner of about 200 acres, but the largest proprietor is William Marshall Esq., who has 500 acres. Near the village is a chalybeate spring, moted for its tonic qualities. Mr John Henry Fisher resides at the Hall, which is a neat residence. The Nottingham and Ambergate branch of the Great Northern Railway has a neat station about half a mile from Orston."
[White's "Directory of Nottinghamshire," 1853]

Census

• The parish was in the Bingham sub-district of the Bingham Registration District.
  
  
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
  
  

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Church History

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to St. Mary.
  
  
• The date of construction is uncertain, but apparently Norman.
  
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1583.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Bingham No. 2.
  
  
• In the baptism register for the period 1813 - 1869 is a Memoranda.
  
  
• The Wesleyan Methodists had a small chapel here prior to 1881.
  
  

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Civil Registration

• The parish was in the Bingham sub-district of the Bingham Registration District.
  
  
• Civil Registration started in July, 1837.
  
  

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Description and Travel

Orston is a village, township, and a parish bounded on the west by the Smite River (or Rivulet). The village stands 5 miles northeast of Bingham, 9 miles southwest of Newark-on-Trent and 116 miles north of London. The parish covers about 1,940 acres.

If you are planning a visit:

• Start your visit in Newark on Trent, take the A46 southeast out of town and turn east (left) onto the A52. At Elton, turn north (left) and drive one mile to Orston.

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Directories

• An extract from White's 1853 Directory relating to this parish.
  
  

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Maps

• The national grid reference is SK 7740.
  
  
• You'll want an Ordinance Survey Explorer map, which has 2.5 inches to the mile scale.
  
  
• See our Maps page for additional resources.
  
  

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Politics and Governance

• This place was an ancient parish in Nottinghamshire and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
  
  
• The parish was in north division of the ancient Bingham Wapentake in the southern division of the county.
  
  
• Some early texts show this place in Newark Hundred.
  
  

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• The Common Land was enclosed here in 1796.
  
  
• After the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, this parish became part of the Bingham Poor Law Union.
  
  

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Population

Year	Orston	Scarrington	Thoroton
1801	351	152	110
1851	461	230	177
1861	424
1871	464
1881	484
1891	408
1901	326	178	88

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Schools

• A National School was built here in 1849 to replace an older school building.
  
  

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