Ostend, Norfolk

{{Other uses|Ostend (disambiguation){{!}}Ostend}}

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| official_name = Ostend

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| shire_district = North Norfolk

| shire_county = Norfolk

| region = East of England

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Ostend is a coastal settlement in the English county of Norfolk. The population is included in the civil parish of Walcott.

It is between the towns of Cromer and Caister-on-Sea being south of, and contiguous with, Walcott.

Ostend achieved a degree of national notability in June 2002 when a rare specimen of Cuvier's beaked whale (Ziphius cavirostris) was stranded on its beach.{{cite web|url=http://www.glaucus.org.uk/News2002.htm |title=Marine Wildlife News of the North-east Atlantic Ocean 2002 |accessdate=26 June 2009}}