Orston
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Orston is a small village in Nottinghamshire nearby to Thoroton, Elton and Bottesford.
The name Orston is thought to originate from the Old English Ordricestune which means 'the farmstead of Ordric" Ordric was the leader of the small settlement. Some early references to the settlement are Oschintone 1086 (the Domesday Book), Orskinton 1242, Orston 1284 and Horston 1428.
Although there are gypsum quarries in the area, it is hard to imagine that Orston was once primarily a mining village. In fact in earlier centuries Orston was probably the most important village in the East Midlands for gypsum. According to the Nottinghamshire volume of the Victoria History of the Countries of England, the gypsum at Orston was the "...finest in the Kingdom".
The village contains St. Mary's Church, the village pub, the "Durham Ox" and has running through it the River Smite. Orston Primary School has about 100 pupils aged between four and eleven years old and the original part of thebuilding was built in 1939. There is also Elton and Orston train station on the outskirts of the village which links it to Grantham and Nottingham.
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