Buckden

Other current and historical names

Bugden
Bugdon
Bugedene

Built-Up Area: Buckden
Parish/Community: Buckden
District/Borough: Huntingdonshire
County: Cambridgeshire
Region: Eastern

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 52°17'37"N 0°15'15"W
Eastings/Northings: 519147, 267624
OS Grid: TL191676
Mapcode Local: GBR J35.2J9
Mapcode Global: VHGM1.JLWY

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Buckden within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Buckden in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Buckden.-- par. and vil. with ry. sta. (Offord and Buckden), in co. and 4 miles SW. of Huntingdon, 3590 ac., pop. 1044; P.O., - T.O.; 1½ mile N W. of the sta. is Buckden Palace, formerly the episcopal mansion of the Bishops of Lincoln.

Buckden in the Domesday Book

A village in Toseland hundred, in the county of Huntingdonshire.

- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Bishop of Lincoln St Mary
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Bishop of Lincoln
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Bishop of Lincoln
- Taxable Value: 20 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £20 in 1066; £16 10/- in 1086
- Households: 37 villagers; 20 smallholders; 1 priest
- Plough Teams: 5 lord's ploughs; 14 men's ploughs (20 plough lands)
- Meadow: 84 acres
- Woodland: 1 league
- Churches: 1
- Mills: 1, value £1 10/-

British Place Names

Buckden, Cambridgeshire

Buckden is a village in Cambridgeshire

Buckden in historic gazetteers

Buckden in the Domesday Book