Orston is an English village and civil parish in the Rushcliffe borough of Nottinghamshire, 15 miles east of Nottingham. It borders the parishes of Scarrington, Thoroton, Flawborough, Bottesford and Elton on the Hill. The population at the 2011 census was 454, increasing to 512 residents at the 2021 census.

Scarrington is an English civil parish and small village in the Rushcliffe borough of Nottinghamshire, adjacent to Bingham, Car Colston, Hawksworth, Orston and Aslockton. Its 968 acres had a population in the 2011 census of 183, falling to 167 at the 2021 census. It lies at Ordnance Survey grid reference SK7341 in the undulating farmland of the Vale of Belvoir, some 2 miles (3.2 km) from the town of Bingham and from a stretch of the Roman Fosse Way (A46) between Newark and Leicester. It is skirted by the A52 road between Nottingham and Grantham.