Martinsthorpe is a civil parish in the county of Rutland in the East Midlands of England.

[3] It is located about four miles (6 km) south of Oakham near the village of Manton.

Originally this was part of the service wing of Martinsthorpe Hall, a seat of the Earls of Nottingham.

[4] An ancient route, perhaps a true ridgeway of the Bronze Age, comes westwards from Stamford and follows the limestone ridge by Edith Weston, Manton and Martinsthorpe, entering Leicestershire near Withcote.

[5] Martinsthorpe was an electoral division for the purposes of electing councillors to Rutland County Council and comprised the parishes of Gunthorpe, Lyndon, Manton, Martinsthorpe, Morcott, Pilton, and Wing.