Beccles
Beccles is a market town and civil parish in the East Suffolk district, in the county of Suffolk, England. The town is located along the A145 and A12 roads, situated 16 miles south-east of Norwich and 33 miles north-northeast of Ipswich.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 13,900 residents
- Description: market town and civil parish in East Suffolk, Suffolk, England, UK
- Also known as: “Beccles, Suffolk”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Beccles Town Hall and Church of St Michael.
Beccles Town Hall
Town hall
Photo: MortimerCat, CC BY 2.5.
Beccles Town Hall is a municipal structure in New Market, Beccles, Suffolk, England. The structure, which accommodates the offices and meeting place of Beccles Town Council, is a Grade II listed building.
Beccles bell tower
Building
Photo: Dr Neil Clifton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Beccles bell tower is a free-standing Grade I listed edifice associated with the adjacent St. Michael's Church in the market town of Beccles, Suffolk, England.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gillingham and Ringsfield.
Gillingham
Village
Photo: Evelyn Simak, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Gillingham is a small village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. Gillingham is located 1.5 miles north-west of Beccles and 15 miles south-east of Norwich, along the A146.
Ringsfield
Village
Photo: William Metcalfe, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ringsfield is a village and civil parish in the English county of Suffolk. It is 2 miles south-west of Beccles in the East Suffolk district. The parish had a population of 323 at the 2011 United Kingdom census. Ringsfield is situated 1½ miles southwest of Beccles.
Worlingham
Village
Photo: Helen Steed, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Worlingham is a village and civil parish in the East Suffolk district of the English county of Suffolk. It is about 1.3 miles east of Beccles, with the two places effectively joined to form one urban area. Worlingham is situated 1½ miles east of Beccles.
Beccles
- Categories: civil parish, market town, and locality
- Location: Beccles, Waveney District, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.45838° or 52° 27′ 30″ northLongitude
1.56229° or 1° 33′ 44″ eastPopulation
13,900Elevation
39 feet (12 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB BCCOpen location code
9F43FH56+9WOpenStreetMap ID
node 29837207OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Beccles” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Beccles”
- Basque: “Beccles”
- Bengali: “বেক্কলেস”
- Cebuano: “Beccles”
- Chinese: “Beccles”
- Chinese: “貝克爾斯”
- Chinese: “贝克尔斯”
- Dutch: “Beccles”
- French: “Beccles”
- German: “Beccles”
- Gujarati: “બેક્લેસ”
- Irish: “Beccles”
- Italian: “Beccles”
- Japanese: “ベクルズ”
- Japanese: “ベックレス”
- Kannada: “ಬೆಕ್ಲೆಸ್”
- Korean: “베클스”
- Ladin: “Beccles”
- Lithuanian: “Beklsas”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Beccles”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Beccles”
- Persian: “بکلس”
- Polish: “Beccles”
- Portuguese: “Beccles”
- Romanian: “Beccles”
- Russian: “Беклс”
- Russian: “Бэклс”
- South Azerbaijani: “بکلس”
- Spanish: “Beccles”
- Swedish: “Beccles”
- Tamil: “பேக்க்ல்ஸ்”
- Telugu: “బెక్ లెస్”
- Turkish: “Beccles”
- Urdu: “بیککلیس”
- Volapük: “Beccles”
- Welsh: “Beccles”
- “Beccles”
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