BECKBURY NEWSLETTER JANUARY 2021

2021 CENSUS IN SHROPSHIREThe Office of National Statistics (ONS) will carry out the 2021 Census on 21st March 2021. The Census will provide a picture of England and Wales, revealing the size and characteristics of the population and providing valuable information that...

Beckbury Newsletter 2020

Dear friends,At the end of March we again change the clocks remembering the “aide memoire” Spring forward; fall back. So we spring into BST British Summer Time and ‘lose an hour’. Changing the clocks was first introduced in 1916, the UK copying the German Empire who...

Six Parishes Newsletter March 2019

CHURCH NEWS Lent begins on Ash Wednesday 6th March, and we mark it with a 10am communion service at Beckbury Church. There will be Lent Groups meetings at Kemberton, meeting on Tuesday evenings. Full details from local church members. Click here for full...

Parish Newsletter December 2018

  Dear friends I wonder if you have a favourite Christmas carol? There are so many to choose from. Christmas attracts attention from lots of musicians and song writers, including of course non-religious songs without reference to the Bethlehem nativity.   Click here...

Beckbury History

BECKBURY The small rural parish of Beckbury lies on the Shropshire–Staffordshire border c. 6 km. south of Shifnal. In the Middle Ages (perhaps from the 12th century) (fn. 1) and until 1905 it formed, with the adjoining parish of Badger, a detached part of Hereford...

Six Parishes November Newsletter

PRAYER OF THE MONTH (for Remembrance Sunday) Lord God, our refuge and our strength, bring near the day when wars will cease, and poverty and pain shall end, that earth may know the peace of heaven, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Please click here for the November...