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    Beccles Airfield, also known as Beccles Airport or Beccles Aerodrome (ICAO: EGSM), is located in Ellough, 2 NM (3.7 km; 2.3 mi) southeast of Beccles in...
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    is a suburb of Beccles; the combined population is 13,868. Beccles twinned with Petit-Couronne in France in 1978. The place-name ‘Beccles’ is first attested...
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    Ellough (section RAF Beccles)
    was the site of a World War II airfield built in 1943 and operated today as Beccles Airfield. Part of the former airfield is used as a kart racetrack and...
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    passes through this area, with the nearest railway station at Beccles. Other than Beccles, the parish borders the parishes of North Cove, Mutford, Ellough...
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  • public active aerodromes (airports and airfields) in the UK and the British Crown Dependencies. Most private airfields are not listed. For a list ranked by...
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    nearest railway stations at Beccles and Oulton Broad. The village is bypassed to the south by the A146 road, with the A145 Beccles to Blythburgh road joining...
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    This list of former RAF stations includes most of the stations, airfields and administrative headquarters previously used by the Royal Air Force. They...
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    FM, and Kiss on 106.1 FM. The town is served by the local newspapers, Beccles and Bungay Journal and Eastern Daily Press. Halesworth has a 27-hole golf...
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    Wangford district, Suffolk; 2½ miles W by S of Beccles r. station. It has a post-office under Beccles. The church was repaired in 1856. The Wangford workhouse...
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    of Beccles. It runs southwards for around 0.9 miles (1.4 km) through farmland and an industrial area on the site of the World War II Ellough Airfield. The...
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    Tivetshall in Norfolk to Beccles in Suffolk connecting the Great Eastern Main Line at Tivetshall with the East Suffolk line at Beccles. It provided services...
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  • EGSM Beccles Airport Beccles England EGSN Bourn Airfield Cambridge England EGSO Crowfield Airfield Ipswich England EGSP Peterborough/Sibson Airfield Peterborough...
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    Industrial Estate in Lowestoft and Ellough Business Park in Ellough near Beccles. There is also an enterprise zone in Cambridgeshire, Alconbury Enterprise...
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  • Lincolnshire The Parachute Centre – Tilstock, Shropshire UK Parachuting – Beccles, Suffolk Wild Geese Parachute Centre – Movenis & Killykergan, County Londonderry...
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    Norwich No 4 Company – Beccles and Harleston Nos 5 and 6 Companies – Lowestoft No 7 Company – Aldeburgh and Orford No 8 Company – Beccles No 9 Company – Southwold...
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    which is now owned by Bernard Matthews. A145 A12 at Blythburgh A146 on Beccles bypass Originally started in Bungay and ended as now on the A146 but ran...
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    Aerodrome Ltd. Retrieved 5 July 2008. "Fly RainAir (Beccles) – History of Beccles (Ellough) Airfield". RainAir Flying Club. Archived from the original on...
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    stations, including forward operating bases and satellite airfields, Ministry of Defence (MOD) airfields with a Royal Navy presence and Royal Air Force (RAF)...
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    No. Episode First broadcast 1 "Great Yarmouth to Beccles" 2 January 2012 (2012-01-02) Portillo discovers the grave robbing history of Great Yarmouth,...
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    Mells) as it lies on the route of an ancient trackway from Dunwich to Beccles. Holton Hall, demolished in 1957 and replaced by a caravan park, had many...
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  • URC Howe Green URC Howe Green, Essex [132] 1873 URC Hungate Church, Beccles Beccles, Suffolk [133] 1652 Methodist / URC Hutton and Shenfield Union Church...
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    Thornaby Vickers Warwick 3 September 1945 to 10 March 1946 - HQ at RAF Beccles HMS Gannet RNAS Culdrose RMB Chivenor Wattisham RAF Valley RAF Boulmer...
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    Squadron remained at Thornaby and in September 1945 moved its HQ to RAF Beccles where the squadron was to convert to the Lancaster ASR.III, leaving only...
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  • It is located around 2 miles (3 km) south-east of the market town of Beccles. It is primarily used for kart racing as it is a fast, but tight and twisty...
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  • the headquarters of the 1st Suffolk (H) Battery was at a Drill Hall in Beccles Road shared with detachments of the Suffolk Yeomanry, the 6th (Cyclist)...
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    although the building remains in use as a house. During World War I Covehithe airfield, a night-landing ground, was operated from 1915 to 1919 by the Royal Naval...
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    England. It was also the western terminus of the Waveney Valley Line from Beccles. It served six small parishes in an agricultural area. It was first opened...
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    hostilities of the Second World War the British Government handed the airfield over to the Icelandic Civil Aviation Authority on 6 July 1946. It is now...
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    line, attacking up the Via Adriatica until it ran into opposition at the airfield south-west of Ferrara on 22 April. After a 36-hour fight the division thrust...
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    uk. Retrieved 15 November 2021. "Special birthday for historic museum". Beccles and Bungay Journal. 10 April 2009. Retrieved 15 November 2021. "Greater...
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