Beccles is a market town and civil parish in the English county of Suffolk. The town is shown on the milestone as 109 miles from London via the A145 and A12 roads, 98 miles north-east of London as the crow flies, 16 miles south-east of Norwich and 33 miles north-northeast of the county town of Ipswich. Nearby towns include Lowestoft to the east and Great Yarmouth to the north-east. The town lies on the River Waveney on the edge of The Broads National Park.
It had a population at the 2011 census of 10,123. Worlingham is a suburb of Beccles; the combined population is 13,868. Beccles twinned with Petit-Couronne in France in 1978.