Buckland
Translingual
Proper noun
Buckland
- A botanical plant name author abbreviation for botanist William Buckland (1784-1856).
Further reading
English
Etymology
From Old English bōc (“book”) + land (“land”).
Proper noun
Buckland (countable and uncountable, plural Bucklands)
- A number of places in England:
- A village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, previously in Aylesbury Vale district: the parish is unusually long and narrow (OS grid ref SP8812). [1]
- An eastern suburb of Newton Abbot, Teignbridge district, Devon (OS grid ref SX8771).
- Two hamlets, East Buckland and West Buckland, in Thurlestone parish, South Hams district, Devon.
- A village and civil parish in Tewkesbury borough, Gloucestershire (OS grid ref SP0836).
- A suburb of Lymington, New Forest district, Hampshire (OS grid ref SZ3196).
- A suburb of Portsmouth, Hampshire, north-east of the city centre (OS grid ref SU6501).
- A village and civil parish (served by Buckland and Chipping Parish Council) in East Hertfordshire district, Hertfordshire (OS grid ref TL3533).
- A northern suburb of Dover, Kent (OS grid ref TR3042).
- A village and civil parish in Vale of White Horse district, Oxfordshire (OS grid ref SU3497).
- A village and civil parish in Mole Valley district, Surrey (OS grid ref TQ2250).
- The Rural Municipality of Buckland No. 491, a rural municipality in central Saskatchewan, Canada.
- A number of places in the United States:
- A minor city in Northwest Arctic Borough, Alaska.
- A town in Franklin County, Massachusetts.
- A village in Auglaize County, Ohio.
- An unincorporated community in Prince William County, Virginia, site of Buckland Historic District.
- A rural locality in Central Highlands Region, Queensland, Australia.
- A rural locality in Glamorgan-Spring Bay council area, eastern Tasmania, Australia.
- A village near Pukekohe, Auckland region, New Zealand. [2]
- A habitational surname from Old English.
Statistics
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Buckland is the 9506th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 3419 individuals. Buckland is most common among White (93.3%) individuals.
References
Further reading
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Buckland”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 245.
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