Glaston is a village in the county of Rutland in the East Midlands of England.

[4] Glaston railway tunnel, 1 mile 82 yards in length, is located within the parish, to the east of the village.

4 Parachute Squadron, Royal Engineers were billeted in Glaston and at Bisbrooke Hall in the months before Operation Market Garden in September 1944.

Masters of Peterhouse were Rector of Glaston until 1867, when the rectory was detached from the headship by new college statutes.

[9] Robert was almost certainly born in Glaston, where the Colley family were Lords of the Manor from about 1400.