Overton’s 1st National School was established in a room in the village workhouse in Dellands in about 1819. New accomodation was needed in 1836 and a 2nd school, shown above, was built in what is now called Kingsclere Road. It proved to be an unhealthy site and the schoolmaster refused to live there. It was replaced by a 3rd school which was built for juniors at the village crossroads in 1868 and a new infant school in Red Lion Lane in 1872.
From Irene Tungate