Norfolk: Overstrand

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Overstrand is about 2 miles E.S.E. of Cromer.
See also Sidestrand.
Poppyland is the area around Overstrand and Sidestrand.

Cemeteries

The Monumental Inscriptions in the Hundred of North Erpingham (Walter Rye).: The parishes covered include Overstrand.
See Trunch

Census

1841: Surname List. This is a link to an archived copy.
1891: Surname List

Church Directories

In 1883 the parish was in the Deanery of Repps, in the archdeaconry of Norfolk.
The dedication of the parish church is Christ Church.
There was previously a church dedicated to St Martin.
Nearby Churches of all denominations.

Church History

No author: St Martin's Church, Overstrand.
[London, Home Words, 1975]
Overstrand Methodist Church: Minister, services, address, picture, etc.
Overstrand Methodist Church: Description and picture.

Church Records

Archdeacon's Transcripts or Bishop's Transcripts: Marriages and Burials. These are links to archived copies.
Archdeacon's Transcripts: Overstrand (Bapt 1725-1812, Mar 1726-1811, Bur 1725-1811).
See Northrepps
Marriages: These are not included in Boyd's Marriage Index or Phillimore's Marriage Registers.

Civil Registration

For the civil registration of births, marriages and deaths between 1837 and 1930 (and for the censuses from 1851 to 1901), Overstrand was in Erpingham Registration District.

Description and Travel

Overstrand: Description, history, map, organisations, pictures, etc.
Overstrand: Description and pictures.
Pictures of old Overstrand: From the Frith Collection.
Poppyland: This is the area around Overstrand and Sidestrand.
Battersea, Lady Constance: Reminiscences (of Overstrand and the Rothschild family).
[London, Macmillan, 1923]
Knights, Mark: The illustrated guide to Cromer and neighbourhood: including Runton, Sherringham, Overstrand, Sidestrand, Mundesley, Northrepps, Bacton, Bromholm, and the Broads; revised to the present time by Mark Knights.
[London, Jarrold, 1880s]
Rothery, Constance: The Poppyland Flyer: the story of the railway line from Cromer to North Walsham, 1906-1953: calling at: Cromer Links - Overstrand - Sidestrand Halt -Trimmingham and Paston & Knapton - Mundesley.
[Norfolk, 1984]
Stibbons, Peter; and Cleveland, David: Poppyland: Strands of Norfolk History.
[ISBN 0946148171, Poppyland Publishing, 1985]

Gazetteers and Directories

Overstrand is in North Erpingham hundred.

Land and Property

The Pleasaunce: A house designed by Edwin Lutyens
Fossils and Geology of Overstrand

Maps

Map of the village: Showing roads, etc
Parish outline and location.: See Parish Map for Erpingham Registration District, 1836
Modern and Historical Maps: Maps of the parish and nearby places.

Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc

After 1834 Overstrand became part of the Erpingham Union, and the workhouses were at Gimingham and Sheringham. These were replaced by a new workhouse at West Beckham in 1850.

Schools

Belfry School: Description and picture.
Anderson, Verily: Let's have a school. Overstrand Belfry School, 1830-1980.
[Overstrand Belfry School, 1980]

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