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An 1886 Ordnance Survey map fragment showing a graveyard, a school, and building plots with text labels in central Over.

Over, 1886 OS

Swan House, Swan Inn, 80 High Street, Over

History of the Swan Inn, Over

Listed Building

late C17 or early C18. (Historic England)

Three-story brick house with a blue front door, white sash windows, dormer windows in the tiled roof, and two brick chimneys.

Swan Inn, Over (RGL2025)


1637 John Webb of Northants sold house to Thomas Walman of Over for £22.


Enid Porter writes in Cambridgeshire Customs and Folklore p129, about New Year’s Eve:

In Over in the last century the bell-ringers of the parish held their annual supper on New Year’s Eve in the Swan Inn. They ate roast beef and drank Hot Pot made by the publican from beer, spirits, eggs, sugar, nutmeg and milk. This was imbibed from a cow horn known as a Long Tot or a Long Tom.


1901 Swan Inn

William Brittan, 55, farmer, b Over

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  • Listed building
  • Public House

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