Beckbury

{{Short description|Village and civil parish in Shropshire, England}}

{{use British English|date=March 2017}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}}

{{Infobox UK place

| official_name = Beckbury

| static_image_name = St. Milburga's Church, Beckbury - geograph.org.uk - 119134.jpg

| static_image_caption = St Milburga's Church, Beckbury

| population = 341

| population_ref = (2011)

| coordinates = {{coord|52.612|-2.350|display=inline,title}}

| label_position = left

| civil_parish = Beckbury

| post_town = Shifnal

| postcode_district = TF11

| postcode_area = TF

| dial_code = 01952

| os_grid_reference = SJ765016

| country = England

| region = West Midlands

| constituency_westminster = Ludlow

|unitary_england = Shropshire

|lieutenancy_england = Shropshire

}}

Beckbury is a village and civil parish in Shropshire, England. Beckbury had a population of 327 according to the 2001 census,from census 2001 statistics increasing to 340 at the 2011 Census,{{cite web|url=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|title=Civil Parish population 2011|accessdate=22 November 2015}} The village is {{convert|8|mi}} south-east of Telford and is close to the Staffordshire border.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. The small rural parish of Beckbury lies on the Shropshire–Staffordshire border {{convert|6|km|order=flip}} south of Shifnal. It has a pub – the Smokey Cow, 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 and the name means Beocca's Fort or defended place (Beocca being someone's name).{{cite book|last1=Ekwall|first1=Eilert|title=The concise Oxford dictionary of English place-names|date=1960|publisher=Clarendon Press|location=Oxford|isbn=0198691033|page=36|edition=4. }}

The village was struck by an F0/T1 tornado on 23 November 1981, as part of the record-breaking nationwide tornado outbreak on that day.{{Cite web|url=https://www.eswd.eu/cgi-bin/eswd.cgi|title=European Severe Weather Database|website=www.eswd.eu}}