It is located close to the border with Rutland, around 4 miles (6.4 km) west of Oakham.

The population of the civil parish of "Knossington and Cold Overton" at the 2011 census was 316.

[2] Knossington is listed in the Domesday book, having 31 households,[3] in the hundred of Gartree.

[4] The west side of the village is dominated by the grounds of Knossington Grange,[5] a large Tudor style mansion built in the late 19th century, now a school.

[6] The 14th-century St Peter's church, restored in 1830, is a Grade II* listed building.