Orston is an English village and civil parish in the Rushcliffe borough of Nottinghamshire, 15 miles (24 km) east of Nottingham.

The member of Parliament (MP) for the Newark constituency, to which Orston belongs, is the Conservative Robert Jenrick.

It lay in Bingham Wapentake (hundred) until such units were abolished under the Local Government Act 1894.

[5] There is a short description of the village in 1870–1872 in John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales.

Indeed, Orston in earlier centuries was once primarily a mining village, and probably the most important source of gypsum in the East Midlands.

According to the Nottinghamshire volume of the Victoria History of the Countries of England, the gypsum at Orston was the "finest in the Kingdom".

Orston Primary School, occupying premises built in 1939, had 158 pupils aged four to eleven in 2018, equally divided between boys and girls.

[5][22] A delicatessen and café called The Limehaus previously occupied the former post office, which now serves as a day spa.

[24] Elton and Orston railway station on the outskirts of the village provides only a skeleton service of one train in each direction per day.

The slow-running River Smite, which bounds the village on the western side, is 20 miles long.