Bucklebury
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Bucklebury is a village and civil parish in West Berkshire, England, about north-east of Newbury and north of the A4 road. The parish has a population of 2,116, but the village is much smaller. Bucklebury Common, with an area of over , is one of the largest commons in the ceremonial and historic county of Berkshire.
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- Locality
- Chapel Row
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 0
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Key facts
- UK place.type
- Village and civil parish
- UK place.official_name
- Bucklebury
- UK place.static_image_name
- St Mary's, Bucklebury - geograph.org.uk - 504227.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- St Mary the Virgin parish church
- UK place.label_position
- bottom
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- SU5570
- UK place.population
- 2,116
- UK place.population_ref
- (parish in 2011 census)
- UK place.area_total_km2
- 21.82
- UK place.civil_parish
- Bucklebury
- UK place.lieutenancy_england
- Berkshire
- UK place.unitary_england
- West Berkshire
- UK place.region
- South East England
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Reading West and Mid Berkshire
- UK place.post_town
- Reading
- UK place.postcode_district
- RG7
- UK place.postcode_area
- RG
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Encyclopedic overview
13 sectionsContents
- Toponymy
- Geography
- History
- Notable buildings
- Parish church
- Ministry and worship
- Bucklebury House and estate
- Bucklebury Manor
- Demography
- In popular culture
- Notable residents
- References
- External links
Bucklebury is a village and civil parish in West Berkshire, England, about north-east of Newbury and north of the A4 road. The parish has a population of 2,116, but the village is much smaller. Bucklebury Common, with an area of over , is one of the largest commons in the ceremonial and historic county of Berkshire.
==Toponymy== The place-name "Bucklebury" is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it appears as Borgeldeberie, which means "Burghild's fortified place or borough" ("Burghild" is a woman's name).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bucklebury” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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