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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
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Cemeteries

Census

See also Norfolk Parish Links: Censuses

Church Directories

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.
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Church Records

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]
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Description and Travel

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.
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Maps

Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc

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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December 2007