OVERSTRAND, a parish in Erpingham district, Norfolk; on the coast, 2 miles E S E of Cromer, and 8 N N W of North Walsham r. station. Post-town, Cromer, under Norwich. Acres, 598; of which 160 are water. Real property, £687. Pop., 251. Houses, 62. The property is divided among a few. Part of the parish is sometimes called Beck-Hythe; and the whole is in themanor of Gimingham-Lancaster, belonging to Lord Suffield. Cliffs are on the coast, and a range of heights is in the S. There is a fishing station. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £75.* Patron, J. H. Gurney, Esq. The ancient church was washed away in the time of Richard II.; and the present one was then built, is now used in only part of the nave, and is in the other parts a ruin. There is an endowed school.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))