English Explanatory Dictionary

Buckland

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A number of places in England:
  2. A village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, previously in Aylesbury Vale district: the parish is unusually long and narrow (OS grid ref SP8812).
  3. An eastern suburb of Newton Abbot, Teignbridge district, Devon (OS grid ref SX8771).
  4. Two hamlets, East Buckland and West Buckland, in Thurlestone parish, South Hams district, Devon.
  5. A village and civil parish in Tewkesbury borough, Gloucestershire (OS grid ref SP0836).
  6. A suburb of Lymington, New Forest district, Hampshire (OS grid ref SZ3196).
  7. A suburb of Portsmouth, Hampshire, north-east of the city centre (OS grid ref SU6501).
  8. A village and civil parish (served by Buckland and Chipping Parish Council) in East Hertfordshire district, Hertfordshire (OS grid ref TL3533).
  9. A northern suburb of Dover, Kent (OS grid ref TR3042).
  10. A village and civil parish in Vale of White Horse district, Oxfordshire (OS grid ref SU3497).
  11. A village and civil parish in Mole Valley district, Surrey (OS grid ref TQ2250).
  12. A rural municipality in central Saskatchewan, Canada; in full, the Rural Municipality of Buckland No. 491.

Word forms

Buckland Bucklands

Etymology

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

Derived words

Buckland in the Moor Buckland Monachorum Buckland Newton Buckland St Mary East and West Buckland East Buckland West Buckland
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