Osleston

Osleston
Osleston
	; The remains of the medieval village of Osleton
	Osleston Location within Derbyshire
Population	267 (2011)
OS grid reference	SK248371
Civil parish	Osleston and Thurvaston;
District	South Derbyshire;
Shire county	Derbyshire;
Region	East Midlands;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	ASHBOURNE
Postcode district	DE6
Police	Derbyshire
Fire	Derbyshire
Ambulance	East Midlands

Osleston is a hamlet which together with Thurvaston makes up the parish of Osleston and Thurvaston. The civil parish population at the 2011 Census was 267.[1] It is 7.5 miles (12.1 km) north west of Derby.

In 1848, Osleston, (with Thurvaston), was a place, in the parish of Sutton-on-the-Hill It was recorded as having 1,588 acres (6.43 km²), of which 842 are in Orleston hamlet, and 746 in that of Thurvaston; in each is a small rural village, and the township also includes the scattered village of Cropper, where the Primitive Methodists have a place of worship.[2]

References

"Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 1 April 2016.
'Osleston - Otley', A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 486-491. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51196. Date accessed: 23 February 2008.

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[1] "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 1 April 2016.

[2] 'Osleston - Otley', A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 486-491. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51196. Date accessed: 23 February 2008.