Beckbury
| Beckbury | |
 St. Milburga's Church, Beckbury |
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  Beckbury |
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| Population | 340 (2011) |
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| OS grid reference | SJ765016 |
| Civil parish | Beckbury |
| Unitary authority | Shropshire |
| Ceremonial county | Shropshire |
| Region | West Midlands |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Shifnal |
| Postcode district | TF11 |
| Dialling code | 01952 |
| Police | West Mercia |
| Fire | Shropshire |
| Ambulance | West Midlands |
| EU Parliament | West Midlands |
| UK Parliament | Ludlow |
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Coordinates: 52°36′43″N 2°21′00″W / 52.612°N 2.350°W
Beckbury is a village and civil parish in Shropshire, England. Beckbury has a population of 327 according to the 2001 census,[1] increasing to 340 at the 2011 Census,[2] The village is about eight miles south-east of Telford and is close to the Staffordshire border.[3] The small rural parish of Beckbury lies on the Shropshire–Staffordshire border 6 km (4 mi). south of Shifnal.[3] It has a pub - the Seven Stars, a Church of England school, a village hall, and a parish church dedicated to St Milburga (who was Abbess at Much Wenlock in Saxon times).
Beckbury makes up one of the six parishes of Beckbury, Ryton, Kemberton, Badger, Sutton Maddock and Stockton, which became a united benefice in 1989 (the first group of 6 parishes in the Diocese of Lichfield).
Beckbury was included in the Domesday Book.
References
- ↑ from census 2001 statistics
- ↑ "Civil Parish population 2011". Retrieved 22 November 2015.
- 1 2 From: 'Beckbury', A History of the County of Shropshire: Volume 10: Munslow Hundred (part), The Liberty and Borough of Wenlock (1998), pp. 240-247. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=22874 Date accessed: 19 April 2012.
External links
Media related to Beckbury at Wikimedia Commons
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