Overstrand

Overstrand – known once as Ox Strand – is listed in the Doomsday Book of 1086 and is a small coastal village in the county of Norfolk in the east of England.  A little less than a thousand people live there and it can claim crab fishing, farming and tourism as its main sources of revenue.  Because of the type of land along that entire portion of the coastline, cliff slippage is still a problem, the town losing over an acre of land to the North Sea in 1992.
Overstrand was a fairly quiet hamlet with no recognition until Anna Gurney, Sarah Buxton, and Sir Thomas Fowel Buxton got involved with prison reform and anti-slavery in the 19th century.  Northrepps Cottage, located in Overstrand, became a popular meeting place for many of the reformers of the era.  Anna Gurney was also well known for translating the Saxon Chronicles and starting a school in the village.
Overstrand was the village to which famous names such as Edward VII, Winston Churchill, Albert Einstein, and the Duke of Marlborough travelled to when they were taking holidays in nearby Cromer.  Some of them even built homes there for their use during summer, earning the town the nickname of ‘the Village of Millionaires’.
Today this seaside village has two hotels, a café, pub, caravan site, and other everyday needs such as a village shop and schools.  It does not see as many tourists as some of the other towns and villages on this coast but visitors who manage to make it to Overstrand will enjoy the hospitality and the excellent beach. There is good car parking provision.