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"Buckland Sororum" (aka Buckland Priory or Buckland Abbey) was founded in the 12th century in the parish of Durston and appears to have been suppressed before the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1539. It is doubtful that any of the people who lived there had descendants.
Buckland Dinham (population 381) and Buckland St. Mary (population 521) are parishes still in existence. Buckland Dinham (or Buckland Denham) is about 2 miles northeast of Frome in the east of the county and Buckland St. Mary is about 10 miles southeast of Taunton and 8 miles east of Ilminster in southern Somerset. 19th century census enumerators may have shortened both places to Buckland when listing inhabitants, so particular care must be taken in transferring details to WeRelate.
Buckland is also a placename in the neighbouring county of Devon.
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Buckland Dinham (#4 on map) is a civil parish with a village of the same name near Frome in Somerset, England. The village had a population of 381 in the UK census of 2011. The village's main industry is farming (arable and dairy), but the village is also a dormitory village for the nearby cities Bath and Bristol.
Historic Descriptions
1822 - Somersetshire delineated by Christopher & John Greenwood
A parish in the hundred of Kilmersdon, 2½ miles N. W. from Frome; containing 93 inhabited houses, and 96 families, 9 of whom are employed in agriculture, and 83 in trade, manufacture, or handicraft. The turnpike-road from Bristol to Frome runs through the village, which consists of a long street of indifferent houses. It formerly was a large and very considerable place, having a market on Tuesdays, a fair which continued three days, and a large manufacture of woollen cloth; likewise a market cross, and town-hall wherein the assizes were frequently held. It received its designation from the Denhams, its ancient lords, who resided here in a large mansion long since destroyed. The principal part of the population is employed in the cultivation of teasles, which are used in the woollen manufactory. The church is dedicated to St. Michael, and consists of a nave, chancel, and side aisles, with a tower at the west end containing five bells. The living is a vicarage and a peculiar, in the deanery of Frome, belonging to the prebendary; Rev. R. A. Burney, incumbent; instituted 1817. Population, 1801, 429 — 1811, 403 — 1821, 440.
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1929 - Somerset by George Woosung Wade & Joseph Henry Wade
Buckland Denham, a village prominently perched on a hillside 3 m. N.W. from Frome. It was once a busy little town with a flourishing cloth trade. The church has a W. tower with an unusual arrangement of windows (cp. Hemington). The Norm. S. doorway and the device by which the upper part of the porch has been converted into a parvise should be noticed. Three chapels are attached to the church. The one at the N., originally the chantry of Sir J. Denham, has on the floor the figures of a knight and his lady in relief. In two of the chapels are piscinas, and there is a large one in the chancel. Some ancient glass, with emblems of the Evangelists, will be found in one of the chapels. The Norm. font, with different mouldings on opposite sides, deserves attention.
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- source: Family History Library Catalog
Picture Gallery
 St. Michael and All Angels |  Buckland Dinham village hall |
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