Market Overton is a Village in the county of Rutland.

Retail in Market Overton

There are great places to visit near Market Overton including some great towns, villages and lakes.

Places near Market Overton feature a number of interesting towns including Oakham.

Don't miss Wakerley's villages if visiting the area around Market Overton.

Rutland Water is one of Market Overton's best, nearby lakes to visit in Market Overton.

Market Overton History

There are some historic monuments around Market Overton:

• Exton Old Hall
• Dovecot and arch, formerly lodge of Brooke House
• Moor Lane moated site, Whissendine
• Church Bridge
• Tower Hill motte castle, Stainby
• Oakham motte and bailey castle and medieval gardens
• Bescaby shrunken medieval village
• Manorial settlement, 127m north west of St Mary's Church
• Horn deserted medieval village and moated site
• Village cross 50m south of Middle Farm
• Remains of Knights Templar preceptory, watermill and fishponds
• Moated site with fishponds and enclosures at Empingham
• Churchyard cross, St Mary's churchyard
• Ashwell medieval settlement remains, watermill and gardens at Old Hall
• Anglo-Scandinavian cross, St Bartholomew's churchyard
• Medieval monastic grange with building platforms and dovecote at Saltby
• Churchyard cross, St Nicholas' churchyard
• Barnhill moated site at Hambleton
• Butter Cross and stocks
• Saxon cross in churchyard of parish church, South Stoke
• Alstoe Moot and part of Alsthorpe deserted medieval village
• Dovecote 170m north east of the junction between Main Street and Exton Road
• Churchyard cross in St Peter's churchyard
• Croxton Abbey and associated remains