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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868
"OVERTON, a township in the parish of Lancaster, hundred of Lonsdale South of the Sands, county Lancaster, 5 miles S.W. of Lancaster, its post town. It is situated on Morecambe Bay at the river Lune's mouth. The township comprises the hamlets of Overton, Middleton, and Heaton-with-Oxcliffe. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Manchester, value £155, in the patronage of the Vicar of Lancaster. The church is an ancient structure with an open turret containing one bell. Overton was formerly a Roman settlement. It is joined with Sunderland to form a township."