Car Colston

Car Colston is a village and civil parish in the Rushcliffe borough of Nottinghamshire. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 Census was 185. It was formerly in Bingham Rural District and before 1894 in Bingham Wapentake.

Car Colston lies just off the A46 (the Fosse Way), 3 miles (4.8 km) north of Bingham and 2 miles (3.2 km) west of East Bridgford. It is also adjacent to Little Green, Screveton, Scarrington and Newton. There are seven buses a day between Nottingham and Newark on Trent on Mondays to Saturdays that stop at Car Colston. The nearest railway station is at Bingham, which has services every one to two hours in the Nottingham and Grantham directions.

Since the parish is small, it has a parish meeting instead of a parish council. There are retail, medical and other services at Bingham. The village pub is the Royal Oak on The Green, which is a feature of the village.

Car Colston has a private pre-school at Old Hall Farm. There are primary schools at East Bridgford (2 miles, 3.2 km) and Bingham. Toot Hill School in Bingham is a secondary school with a sixth form and academy status.

The parish church is dedicated to St Mary. It forms a joint Anglican parish with St Wilfrid's Church, Screveton. They now belong, along with Flintham, Kneeton and East Bridgford, to the Fosse Group of Parishes. A service of Holy Communion is held once a month. The Methodist church at Scarrington (1.7 miles, 2.7 km) has a Sunday evening service every other week and a Bible study group.

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