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Pulham Market

Welcome to the Beckvale Home Page. We hope you find your visit to this part of south Norfolk interesting and informative. Please let us have your comments, particularly about other things you would like to see here, links to other relevant pages that you think we should include or any problems that you experience with these pages.

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We are also interested in publishing additional information about the three villages and the area in general.So, please get in contact if you have researched or written something which you would like to see here. Any contributions - written or illustrative - would be welcome. I'd welcome particularly those sorts of things that might help to attract visitors, such as general guides/descriptions of the villages, footpaths and country walks, accommodation etc, together with anything historical.

Oh, and if you would like to follow up your virtual visit with a real one, you'll find useful tourism information on the South Norfolk Council site.

Well, let's move on - you are probably wondering what Beckvale is.

You won't find Beckvale named on many maps - it doesn't exist as a formal geographical location. Beckvale is the name of one of the wards that make up the South Norfolk District Council area and is a handy title for the three villages it comprises, namely Pulham St. Mary, Pulham Market and Starston.

These lie in that attractive and largely undiscovered area of north Suffolk and south Norfolk. The boundary between the two counties is formed by the River Waveney. The villages themselves lie along one of the Waveny's tributaries known as The Beck. If you would like to see where we are, follow this link to a map of the area - you may need to zoom out a bit to get all three villages displayed at the same time. Alternatively, go to the home page of each of the villages; the map link from these should centre in on each settlement.

On the pages that follow you will find descriptions of the villages, information about their history and their services, facilities and community activities, which will prove our claim that they are great places to be, whether just for a visit or as somewhere to make a home.

Some information is common to all three parishes. You can find out about, for example, the geography of the area, local government, education, the community car scheme; otherwise the villages of Pulham Market, Pulham St Mary and Starston all have their own stories to tell.