Buckenham
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Buckenham is a former civil parish, now in the civil parish of Strumpshaw, in the English county of Norfolk. It is located south-west of Acle and east of Norwich on the northern bank of the River Yare. Buckenham Marshes RSPB reserve in the parish is a bird reserve operated by the RSPB and much of the area of the former parish lies within The Broads National Park.
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- Broadland
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- England
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- United Kingdom
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- civil parish
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Strumpshaw
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Buckenham is a former civil parish, now in the civil parish of Strumpshaw, in the English county of Norfolk. It is located south-west of Acle and east of Norwich on the northern bank of the River Yare. Buckenham Marshes RSPB reserve in the parish is a bird reserve operated by the RSPB and much of the area of the former parish lies within The Broads National Park.
Buckenham's name is of Anglo-Saxon origin and in the Domesday Book it is recorded as a settlement of 195 households in the Hundred of Blofield. It formed part of the estates of William the Conqueror, Bury St Edmunds Abbey and William d'Ecouis.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Buckenham” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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