Beckbury
From Wikishire
| Beckbury | |
| Shropshire | |
|---|---|
 St Milburga's Church, Beckbury | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SJ765016 |
| Location: | 52°36’43"N, 2°21’0"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 340 (2011) |
| Post town: | Shifnal |
| Postcode: | TF11 |
| Dialling code: | 01952 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Shropshire |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Ludlow |
Beckbury is a village and parish in Shropshire adjacent to the border with Staffordshire. 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 four miles 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 six parishes in the Diocese of Lichfield).
Beckbury was included in the Domesday Book.
References
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Beckbury) |
- ↑ from census 2001 statistics
- ↑ "Civil Parish population 2011". http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11120526&c=Beckbury&d=16&e=62&g=6460288&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1448204005031&enc=1. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
- ↑ 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.
