Buckminster

Other current and historical names

Bucheminstre

Parish/Community: Buckminster
District/Borough: Melton
County: Leicestershire
Region: East Midlands

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 52°47'48"N 0°41'42"W
Eastings/Northings: 488071, 322935
OS Grid: SK880229
Mapcode Local: GBR CQ2.R1H
Mapcode Global: WHGL1.9Y5S

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

Buckminster in historic gazetteers

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

Buckminster, par., township, and vil., N. Leicestershire, on border of co., 9½ miles NE. of Melton Mowbray -- par., 3053 ac., pop. 454; township, pop. 253; P.O.; contains B. Park, seat of the Earl of Dysart.

Buckminster in the Domesday Book

A village in Framland hundred, in the county of Leicestershire.

- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Healfdene son of Topi
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Bishop of Lincoln
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: R. son of Walter (subinfeudated)
- Taxable Value: 9 ¹⁄₂ geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: 4 shillings in 1070; £4 in 1086
- Households: 8 villagers; 3 smallholders; 20 freemen
- Plough Teams: 2 lord's ploughs; 8 men's ploughs (8 plough lands)
- Meadow: 52 acres

British Place Names

Buckminster, Leicestershire

Buckminster is a village in Leicestershire

Buckminster in historic gazetteers

Buckminster in the Domesday Book