- source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- source: Family History Library Catalog
- the following text is based on an article in Wikipedia
Buckland is a village and is now part of Buckland and Chipping civil parish in the East Hertfordshire District of Hertfordshire, England. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 285. The village is about 4½ miles south of Royston on the A10 road.
A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Buckland from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:
- "BUCKLAND, a parish in Royston [registration] district, Herts; near Ermine-street and the sources of the Rib and Quin rivers, 3 miles N of Buntingford [railway] station. It includes the village of Chipping; and has a post office under Buntingford. Acres: 1,552. Real property: £2,164. Population: 385. Houses: 80. The property is divided among a few. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester. Value: £300. Patron: King's College, Cambridge. The church is good."
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