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Beaumont's Hall is marked on the 1904 OS 1:2500 map at TL 9455 6742 and was still marked on the 1958 1:10560 map, but not on the 1978 1:10000 map, To the E of the house there is an L-shaped pond that appears to be the remains of a small moat (the 190...

Wrought iron built Beccles Bridge constructed in 'early C19' (actually dated 1884), replacing 3 arch masonry and earlier timber bridges.

Cottage hospital built in 1873.

Two groups of wooden piles, 7-8 feet apart, just N of Beccles bridge. Med.

The features previously identified as a subsquare enclosure of circa 50m sides enclosed within a second enclosure of circa 100m sides, are interpreted here as non-archaeological in origin, probably associated with the golf course on Beccles Common.

Medieval town of Beccles. Urban by 1086.

1981: One flint flake and one crude flint chopping tool found during bypass (Beccles) work circa 450 yards ENE of Common Farm (S1).

Site of Beccles Manor & Manor House, demolished when Caxton Printing works was built in 1868. Print works since been demolished (Dec 2004), site now occupied by Supermarket.

Second World War USAAF airfield, 2 miles SE of Beccles.

Common visible on Hodskinson's Map of 1783.