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Beccles
Beccles (United Kingdom)
Beccles

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Population 9,850 (mid-2005 Estimate)
OS grid reference TM428897
District Waveney
Shire county Suffolk
Region East
Constituent country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town BECCLES
Postcode district NR34
Dialling code 01502
Police Suffolk
Fire Suffolk
Ambulance East of England
UK Parliament Waveney
European Parliament East of England
List of places: UK • England • Suffolk

Coordinates: 52°27′04″N 1°34′28″E / 52.4512, 1.5744

Beccles is a small market town in Suffolk, England, around the area of The Broads. The town had a population of about 9,850 people around 2005.[1] Beccles has a suburb called Worlingham which has a combined population of about 13,580.[1] Beccles is twinned with Petit-Couronne in France.

[change] History

Beccles Town Hall that was built in the 18th century.
Beccles Town Hall that was built in the 18th century.

Baccles was once a flourishing Saxon riverport, but today it is in the Waveney valley thet is a popular boating centre. The town was granted its Charter in 1584 by Queen Elizabeth I.

The Peck family was associated with Beccles for a long time.[2] The Puritan Peck was eventually forced to leave to Hingham, Massachusetts, founded by many members of his parish, where he resided for several years, until King Charles I had been executed and Oliver Cromwell was in charge of government.[3] At that time, Robert Peck decided to return to Hingham, Norfolk, and continued his pastorship of St. Andrews Church. He died in Hingham but he left descendants in America, as well as his brother Joseph Peck, who settled in Rehoboth, Massachusetts.[4][5]

[change] References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Estimates of total Population of areas in Suffolk
  2. ↑ An Account of the Beccles Fen in the County of Suffolk, with a Translation of Their Charter, Drawn Up in the Year 1807 for the Use of The Corporation, 1826
  3. ↑ History of the Town of Hingham, Massachusetts, Thomas Tracy Bouve, 1893
  4. ↑ A Genealogical History of the Descendants of Joseph Peck Who Emigrated with His Family to This Country in 1638, Ira Ballou Peck, 1868
  5. ↑ Old Houses of the Antient Town of Norwich (Conn.), 1660-1800, Mary Elizabeth Perkins, 1895
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