Market Overton is a village on the northern edge of the county of Rutland in the East Midlands of England.

A Grade I listed building,[5] it contains a Saxon arch and some carved stone from the Anglo-Saxon era, but most of the existing fabric is in the Perpendicular style, dating from the late 13th and early 14th century.

William Kitchen Parker, the zoologist, worked as a druggist's assistant to the village's doctor.

There is a small industrial estate to the north of the village, where ironstone was mined from 1906-72 by James Pain Ltd, later becoming Stewarts & Lloyds then BSC Tubes Division.

Most of the civil parish lies to the north and the east, including part of RAF Cottesmore (now Kendrew Barracks), but not the main runway.

The county boundary (and the Rutland Round) passes on the southern edge of Woodwell Head.

It passes to the south of Pasture Farm and the southern edge of Cribb's Lodge (in Wymondham), where the parish boundary meets Thistleton.