There's something about the village of Overstrand that brings the term 'suburbia' to ones mind.  Bungalows with neat colourful gardens, flank the main road.  Deeper into the village you will find very little traffic.

Back in its past the village was once a fishing village and this tradition still continues but on a much smaller scale. The village popularised by Clement Scott, a Daily Telegraph and Morning Post writer, who coined the term Poppyland, because of the many wild red poppies which grew in the grass and wheat fields along the hedgerows and on the cliffs. His romantic tales about the area drew the rich and famous and the village became known as the Village of Millionaires.  

Nowadays the village has slipped back into anonymity and takes the form of a quiet holiday resort with good sandy beaches, though please note there is a steep causeway down to the beach, which may not suit all legs!

There are a village stores, a post office, restaurant and  public house. For a busier seaside resort visit Cromer some two miles just down the road,  where you will find a golf course, cinema, museum, tennis courts, pitch and putt and of course the famous end of pier show at Cromer Pier, as well as a larger range of shops for retail therapy. For holiday accommodation in Overstrand or closeby - self catering - bed and breakfast - camping and caravan - hotel - inns - guest house look at our accommodation pages.

Just before you head down to the beach, or upon your return from the beach pop into the famous 'Cliff Top Cafe' located at the top of the walkway.

Overstrand was known as the Village of Millionaires and was the favourite watering hole of the rich and famous many of whom built huge elaborate second homes here. No less than six millionaires had houses in the village. The Pleasaunce was commissioned by Lord and Lady Battersea (she was a Rothschild), the house was designed by Edwin Lutyens and the grounds designed by Gertrude Jekyll.
It is now a Christian Fellowship Holiday Home. Overstrand Hall was designed for Lord and Lady Hillingdon.
The Sea Marge a large mock-Tudor style building and now a hotel and restaurant was designed by Arthur Bloomfield for Sir Edgar Speye. A Banker who helped fund the original London Underground, yet who was deported during the First World War because of his German connections. Even Winston Churchill’s father owned a house in the village called Pear Tree Cottage.

The distinguished architect Sir Edwin Lutyen Methodist Church. It is thought to be the only non-conformist church he designed. A strange plain brick lower floor and a flint and glass clerestory above.

In Anglo Saxon times Overstrand was called Ox Strand. Overstrand means ‘ above the beach’.