Car Colston is an English village and civil parish in the Rushcliffe borough of Nottinghamshire.

[4] The member of Parliament (MP) for the Newark constituency, to which Car Colston belongs, is the Conservative Robert Jenrick.

[8] The Methodist church at Scarrington (1.7 miles, 2.7 km) has a Sunday evening service every other week and a Bible study group.

[9] Car Colston Cricket Club plays on the village common every Sunday in summer months.

[10] The original affix, Old Norse kirkja, 'church', was later confusingly replaced by Middle English ker, meaning 'fenland'.

The suffix seems to contain an Old Norse personal name Kolr + tūn (Old English), an enclosure; a farmstead; a village; an estate.., so 'Kolr's farm/settlement'.

[14] In 1598 landowners had fields within the parish enclosed, but agreed on leaving the greens open so that cottagers could graze their cattle, geese and horses.

Three roads from the village show fence posts put in place to support gates preventing the animals escaping, which have since been removed to allow vehicular access.