Beckjay is a

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in the south of the

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county of

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. Its name, and that of the nearby hamlet of Jay (about south), is probably a reference to the family of Elias de Jay, who held the local manor of Bedston until 1349.''Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society'', VI, 1894, p.317 A relative of this family, Brian de Jay, was the last recorded master of the English

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. Forming part of the

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Clungunford Clungunford is a village and civil parish in south Shropshire, England, located near the border with Herefordshire. Village The village features St. Cuthbert's parish church. The River Clun flows just to the west of the village and can be c ...

, Beckjay is close to the border with

Herefordshire Herefordshire () is a county in the West Midlands of England, governed by Herefordshire Council. It is bordered by Shropshire to the north, Worcestershire to the east, Gloucestershire to the south-east, and the Welsh counties of Monmouthshire ...

on the west bank of the River Clun. It was a medieval

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. Nearby are the hamlets of

Hopton Heath Hopton Heath, or Hoptonheath, is a hamlet in south Shropshire, England. The border with Herefordshire is close by. It lies on the border of the civil parishes of Clungunford and Hopton Castle. There is a railway station here - Hopton Heat ...

, which has a railway station on the

Heart of Wales Line The Heart of Wales line ( cy, Llinell Calon Cymru) is a railway line running from Craven Arms in Shropshire to Llanelli in southwest Wales. It serves a number of rural centres, including the nineteenth-century spa towns Llandrindod Wells, Llan ...

, and

Broadward Broadward is a dispersed settlement, dispersed hamlet (place), hamlet in south Shropshire, England, situated by the border with Herefordshire. It is in the civil parishes in England, civil parish of Clungunford, a village approximately to the n ...

with its 18th-century hall. There is a

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in the hamlet.dracos.co.uk
Postboxes in SY7 The settlement also features a house with a thatched-roof. A

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exists just to the south of the settlement, downhill from it. The former Beckjay Mill (situated to the northeast of the hamlet, on the Clun) was the subject of several paintings by David Cox.Cox, P. ''Welsh border country'', Batsford, 1946, p.82

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* * Hamlets in Shropshire {{Shropshire-geo-stub

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