Buckland

Other current and historical names

Bochelande

Parish/Community: Buckland
District/Borough: East Hertfordshire
County: Hertfordshire
Region: Eastern

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 51°59'16"N 0°1'23"W
Eastings/Northings: 535843, 233988
OS Grid: TL358339
Mapcode Local: GBR K8H.6ZF
Mapcode Global: VHGNQ.K93H

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

Buckland in historic gazetteers

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

Buckland, par., NE. Herts, 3 miles N. of Buntingford, 1629 ac., pop. 358; P.O.

Buckland in the Domesday Book

A village in Edwinstree hundred, in the county of Hertfordshire.

- Overlord in 1066: Earl Leofwin
- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Saehild, Earl Leofwin's man
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Bishop Odo of Bayeux
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Osbern (subinfeudated)
- Taxable Value: 3 ³⁄₄ geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £10 in 1066; £8 in 1070; £6 in 1086
- Households: 8 villagers; 6 smallholders; 8 cottagers; 4 slaves; 1 priest
- Plough Teams: 2 lord's ploughs; 3 men's ploughs (6 plough lands)
- Meadow: 1 plough
- Woodland: 40 pigs

British Place Names

Buckland, Hertfordshire

Buckland is a village in Hertfordshire

Buckland in historic gazetteers

Buckland in the Domesday Book