Buckland

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proper noun

A village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, previously in Aylesbury Vale district: the parish is unusually long and narrow (OS grid ref SP8812).

Less commonScrabble 17

Meanings

proper nounBuckland (countable and uncountable, plural Bucklands)

plural Bucklands

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

Origin

  1. Old Englishbōc“book”
  2. EnglishBuckland

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

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APA

Buckland. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Buckland

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