Osmotherley is a village and civil parish in the Hambleton hills in North Yorkshire, six miles north-east of Northallerton.

North Yorkshire Police, created by the same Local Government Act 1972 as the non-metropolitan county, are responsible for Osmotherley.

An electoral ward of the same name stretches north and south from the village and had a population at the 2011 census of 1,764.

][citation needed] The Barter Table on the village green is a five-legged structure about 1.5 feet (0.46 m) high with a stone slab on top.

[12][13] The Anglican parish church dedicated to St Peter is built on an Angle site and parts of the building date from the Norman period.

[citation needed] Osmotherley Friends Meeting House, a traditional stone building, was erected in 1690 or 1723.

[16] The village is on the edge of the North York Moors, the largest area of upland moorland in Great Britain.

In the novel, many towns and cities are hit by individually programmed nuclear missiles but because of Osmotherley's small size the village is spared.