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Buckland

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From Old English bōc (“book”) + land (“land”).

proper noun Bucklands

  1. countable, uncountable A village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, previously in Aylesbury Vale district: the parish is unusually long and narrow (OS grid ref SP8812).
  2. countable, uncountable An eastern suburb of Newton Abbot, Teignbridge district, Devon (OS grid ref SX8771).
  3. countable, uncountable Two hamlets, East Buckland and West Buckland, in Thurlestone parish, South Hams district, Devon.
  4. countable, uncountable A village and civil parish in Tewkesbury borough, Gloucestershire (OS grid ref SP0836).
  5. countable, uncountable A suburb of Lymington, New Forest district, Hampshire (OS grid ref SZ3196).
  6. countable, uncountable A suburb of Portsmouth, Hampshire, north-east of the city centre (OS grid ref SU6501).
  7. countable, uncountable A village and civil parish (served by Buckland and Chipping Parish Council) in East Hertfordshire district, Hertfordshire (OS grid ref TL3533).
  8. countable, uncountable A northern suburb of Dover, Kent (OS grid ref TR3042).
  9. countable, uncountable A village and civil parish in Vale of White Horse district, Oxfordshire (OS grid ref SU3497).
  10. countable, uncountable A village and civil parish in Mole Valley district, Surrey (OS grid ref TQ2250).
  11. countable, uncountable A rural municipality in central Saskatchewan, Canada; in full, the Rural Municipality of Buckland No. 491.
  12. countable, uncountable A minor city in Northwest Arctic Borough, Alaska.
  13. countable, uncountable A town in Franklin County, Massachusetts.
  14. countable, uncountable A village in Auglaize County, Ohio.
  15. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Prince William County, Virginia, site of Buckland Historic District.
  16. countable, uncountable A rural locality in Central Highlands Region, Queensland, Australia.
  17. countable, uncountable A rural locality in Glamorgan-Spring Bay council area, eastern Tasmania, Australia.
  18. countable, uncountable A locality in Alpine Shire, north eastern Victoria, Australia.
  19. countable, uncountable A village near Pukekohe, Auckland region, New Zealand.
  20. countable, uncountable A habitational surname from Old English.

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@misc{buckland_2026,
  title = {Buckland},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/buckland},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}