Beverwijk (Dutch pronunciation: [ˌbeːvərˈʋɛik] ⓘ) is a municipality and a city in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland.

The town formed at the Saint Agatha Church which was a pilgrimage location in the Middle Ages.

Allegedly Agatha of Sicily appeared there in the 9th century to a virgin from Velsen who was fleeing from the Count of Kennemerland.

Prior to the reclamation of the IJ Bay, the narrowest point in the North Holland peninsula was at Beverwijk.

In 1944, during the Second World War, the Germans conducted a house-to-house raid in Beverwijk and Velsen-Noord, seizing nearly 500 persons as hostages to force the murderers of three collaborators to surrender themselves.