Overton

Meanings

1. A number of places in the United Kingdom:
2. A suburb of Frodsham, Cheshire West and Chester district, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ5277).
3. A former civil parish in Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, merged into Malpas civil parish in 2015.
4. A hamlet in Ashover parish, North East Derbyshire district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK3462).
5. A hamlet in Arlingham parish, Stroud district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SO7210).
6. A village and civil parish in Basingstoke and Deane district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU5149).
7. A village and civil parish in City of Lancaster district, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD4358).
8. A small village and civil parish (without a council) in Hambleton district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE5555).
9. A small village in Richard's Castle parish, south Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SO5072).
10. A hamlet in West Monkton parish, Somerset West and Taunton district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST2628).
11. A hamlet in Checkley parish, Staffordshire Moorlands district, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SK0438).
12. A village next to Middlestown, City of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE2516).

Etymology

From Old English ōfer (“riverbank”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).