Market Overton
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| Market Overton | |
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  Market Overton Location within Rutland | |
| Area | 2.82 sq mi (7.3 km2) [1] |
| Population | 494 2001 Census[2] |
| • Density | 175/sq mi (68/km2) |
| OS grid reference | SK887164 |
| • London | 88 miles (142 km) SSE |
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| Unitary authority | |
| Shire county | |
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| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | OAKHAM |
| Postcode district | LE15 |
| Dialling code | 01572 |
| Police | Leicestershire |
| Fire | Leicestershire |
| Ambulance | East Midlands |
| UK Parliament | |
Market Overton is a village on the northern edge of the county of Rutland in the East Midlands of England. The population of the civil parish (including Teigh) was 494 at the 2001 census, increasing to 584 at the 2011 census.[3]
Ironstone
The village's name means 'Higher farm/settlement' or 'farm/settlement on/by a ridge'. 'Market' is recorded from 1200 and was added to show the village's early function as a market town.[4]
The parish church is dedicated to St Peter and St Paul. 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.[6] The church, in the Diocese of Peterborough, is part of the Oakham team ministry.[7]
Hannah Ayscough, mother of Isaac Newton, was born in the village in 1623. The regicide Thomas Waite has been claimed to be the son of a village pub landlord. William Kitchen Parker, the zoologist, worked as a druggist's assistant to the village's doctor.
The Market Store is a community shop, opened in May 2010.[8]
There is a stocks with whipping post on the village green which was probably the location of the medieval market place.
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. The brick terraced houses on the road to Thistleton were built for the workers. Access to the mine was by railway, which joined the Melton-Bourne railway at Pain's Sidings. More information is found at the Rutland Railway Museum.
Markon Engineering
The Markon Engineering company (derived from Stamford Engineering), was started in the village in 1959 by Messrs Fawkes and Knight, and moved to Oakham in 1960 then Dalcross near Inverness in 1969. They made electrical generators and were taken over by Newage Ltd in 1987. Generators of the Markon name are now made by Cummins Generator Technologies, based in Stamford. They now make two-pole single-phase capacitor-type alternators under the Markon name.
