| Name | Eccles on Sea |
| Alt names | Eccles | source: Domesday Book (1985) p 189 | | Heccles | source: Domesday Book (1985) p 189 | | Eccles Next the Sea | source: A Vision of Britain through Time |
| Type | Village |
| Coordinates | 52.801°N 1.576°E |
| Located in | Norfolk, England |
| See also | Happing Hundred, Norfolk, England | |hundred in which it was located |
- source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- source: Family History Library Catalog
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NOTE: There is another place in Norfolk named Eccles. This is now a part of the parish of Quidenham in the Breckland District in south Norfolk.
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- the text in this section is based on an article in Wikipedia'
Eccles on Sea (also called Eccles by the Sea or Eccles next the Sea) is an ancient fishing village in northeast Norfolk, England, now virtually all swept into the North Sea. The actual population is under 100 and according to national policy parishes of this size are included with an adjacent parish; in this case, Lessingham.
A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Eccles on Sea from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1871-72:
- "ECCLES, or Eccles-next-the-Sea, a parish in Tunstead [registration] district, Norfolk; on the coast, 9 miles ESE of North Walsham [railway] station, and 18 NE of Norwich. Post town: Happisburgh, under Norwich. Acres: 397; of which 100 are water. Real property, with Hempstead: £2,204. Population: 28. Houses: 7. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich. Value: £75. Patron: the Rev. H. Lombe. The church was destroyed by the sea in 1605."
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