Osleston is a hamlet which together with Thurvaston makes up the parish of Osleston and Thurvaston. The civil parish population at the 2011 Census was 267. It is 7.5 mi north west of Derby. In 1848, Osleston, (with Thurvaston), was a place, in the parish of Sutton-on-the-Hill It was recorded as having 1588 acre, of which 842 are in Orleston hamlet, and 746 in that of Thurvaston; in each is a small rural village, and the township also includes the scattered village of Cropper, where the Primitive Methodists have a place of worship.