Norfolk: Overstrand
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Modern and Historical Maps of this Parish.
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
- 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.
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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.
Church Records
- Archdeacons' Transcripts
- Baptisms 1725-1812, Marriages 1726-1811 and
Burials 1725-1811.
[Parish Register Transcription Society, Dart Series, 2000?]
- 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.
- 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
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Maps
- 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