Beckbury

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Coordinates: 52°36′43″N 2°21′00″W / 52.612°N 2.350°W

Beckbury
St. Milburga's Church, Beckbury
Beckbury Beckbury shown within Shropshire
Population	327
OS grid reference	SJ765016
Shire county	Shropshire
Region	West Midlands
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Police	West Mercia
Fire	Shropshire
Ambulance	West Midlands
EU Parliament	West Midlands
List of places UK England Shropshire

Beckbury is a village and civil parish in Shropshire, England. Beckbury has a population of 327 according to the 2001 census.^[1] The village is about eight miles south-east of Telford and is close to the Staffordshire border.^[2] The small rural parish of Beckbury lies on the Shropshire–Staffordshire border 6 km (4 mi). south of Shifnal.^[2] It has a pub - the Seven Stars, a Church of England school, and a parish church.

Beckbury makes up one of the six parishes of Beckbury, Ryton, Kemberton, Badger, Sutton Maddock and Stockton.

Beckbury was included in the Domesday Book.

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Unitary authorities	Shropshire Council Telford and Wrekin

Major settlements	Bishop's Castle Bridgnorth Broseley Church Stretton Cleobury Mortimer Clun Craven Arms Ellesmere Ludlow Market Drayton Much Wenlock Newport Oswestry Shifnal Shrewsbury Telford (Dawley Madeley Oakengates Wellington) Wem Whitchurch See also: List of civil parishes in Shropshire

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↑ from census 2001 statistics
↑ 2.0 2.1 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.

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