Buckworth

Other current and historical names

Buchesworde

Parish/Community: Buckworth
District/Borough: Huntingdonshire
County: Cambridgeshire
Region: Eastern

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 52°22'38"N 0°18'49"W
Eastings/Northings: 514878, 276806
OS Grid: TL148768
Mapcode Local: GBR H0L.ZDH
Mapcode Global: VHGLM.HHYX

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

Buckworth in historic gazetteers

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

Buckworth, par., in mid. of co. and 7 miles NW. of Huntingdon, 1950 ac., pop. 223.

Buckworth in the Domesday Book

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

- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Earl Tosti
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Count of Eu
- Lords of the Manor in 1086: Count of Eu; 1 man-at-arms (subinfeudated)
- Taxable Value: 10 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £10 in 1066; £13 in 1086
- Households: 22 villagers; 1 smallholder; 1 priest; 1 smith
- Plough Teams: 2 lord's ploughs; 16 men's ploughs (18 plough lands)
- Meadow: 80 acres
- Woodland: 30 acres
- Churches: 1

British Place Names

Buckworth, Cambridgeshire

Buckworth is a village in Cambridgeshire

Buckworth in historic gazetteers

Buckworth in the Domesday Book