This geographically large parish which spans the Norfolk-Suffolk border along the River Waveney, from Harleston eastwards through Bungay to Beccles, was formed in 2025 by the merger of St Edmund’s Bungay (which incorporated St Thomas More, Harleston) and St Benet’s Beccles (which included the private chapel of ease of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour, Gillingham), under the pastoral care of Fr Simon Blakesley.
