Ossington

Ossington is a village in the county of Nottinghamshire, England 7 miles north of Newark on Trent. Population details are included in the civil parish of Laxton and Moorhouse.

It is centred on the site of Ossington Hall, the ancestral home of the Denison family. The house was demolished in 1964 and all that remains are a few out-buildings and the private chapel which now serves the parish as Holy Rood Church, Ossington. This is a Grade I listed church, originally 12th century and rebuilt in 1782-83,by architect John Carr, with minor nineteenth century alterations and additions. It includes earlier monuments and stained glass and there is a barrel organ built by Thomas Robson in 1840.