Eccles On Sea
Eccles-on-Sea (also called Eccles-by-the-Sea) is an ancient fishing village in north-east Norfolk, now virtually all swept into the North Sea. The population is included in the civil parish of Lessingham. History The placename ''Eccles'' comes from the Latin ''ecclesia'' meaning church, and usually indicates an early British Christian site, for ''ecclesia'' was not taken into the Anglo-Saxons' vocabulary other than in inherited place names. When the Domesday Book was compiled in 1086, Eccles-on-Sea was a thriving community of around , but, situated in a low-lying area on the North Norfolk coast, it was prone to inundation. In 1605, according to William White's ''History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk'', 1883, the inhabitants petitioned for a reduction in their taxes when only 14 houses and of land remained following a ferocious storm in 1604.
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