It has been said that Beccles is about 2 hours and 30 years from London. Close to the coastal...
...resort of Southwold on the Suffolk coast, it's more relaxed and well placed to explore Norwich and Norfolk
Strange but true
Sir John Mills spent a few years of his childhood living opposite the Swan House, being fostered by a watchmaker, who's hobby was running the local 'Am-Dram' Society
Sir David Frost, broadcaster Martin Bell, actor Sir John Mills and Nobel prize winner Dorothy Hodgkin to name but four (there were no more), all grew up here in Beccles