Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Beccles. You may be able to find further references to Beccles in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Beccles	parish, municipal borough and market town	Bartholomew

Travel writing

This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Beccles within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

Traveller	Section	No. of Refs.
William Cobbett	Dec. 10th to 24th, 1821: Norfolk and Suffolk Journal	3
Daniel Defoe	Letter 1, Part 3: Norfolk and Cambridgeshire	2
Henry Broadhurst	In Journeyings Often	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 1, Part 2: Harwich and Suffolk	1
Celia Fiennes	1698 Tour: London to Bury St Edmunds	1

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place	Mentioned in Travel Writing	Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
Worlingham	0	2
Gillingham	0	2
Barsham	0	2
Ellough	0	2
Weston	0	2
Geldeston	0	2
North Cove	0	3
Aldeby	0	2
Ringsfield	0	2
Waveney	0	2
Little Redisham	0	2
Shipmeadow	0	2
Willingham	0	2
Hulver	0	2
Stockton	0	2
Barnby	0	2
Mutford	0	4
Wheatacre	0	2
Shadingfield	0	2
Tofts Monks	0	3