Overton is a small village and civil parish in the former Hambleton District of North Yorkshire, England, about 4 miles (6.4 km) north-west of York.

Details are included in the civil parish of Shipton, North Yorkshire.

The village is mentioned three times in the Domesday Book as Ovretun in the Bulford hundred.

The manor belonged to Earl Morcar, who had a hall in the village, at the time of the Norman invasion.

Eventually the manor and estate came into the hands of the Bourchier, and thence the Dawnay, family at Beningbrough.