It is located in the municipality of Berg en Dal, about 5 km east of Nijmegen.

[4] The village dates from the early Middle Ages and was an agricultural community.

[5] The tower of the Saint Bartholomew's Church has elements which probably date from the 11th century.

[6] On 1 January 2015 "Ubbergen", "Groesbeek" and "Millingen aan de Rijn" merged into the enlarged municipality of Groesbeek,[7] renamed Berg en Dal from 1 January 2016.

[8] Beek is part of the Lower Rhine Heights, a cross-border moraine that was formed in the penultimate Ice Age (the Saale glaciation), by the impoundments of glaciers and glacier tongues coming from the northeast.