1893 text
Bugden, or Buckden, a village and parish in the St. Neots district of Huntingdonshire, four miles S.W. of Huntingdon.
This text comes from a footnote on a diary entry in the 1893 edition edited by Henry B. Wheatley.
Buckden, Cambridgeshire
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First Reading
Pedro. • Link
Buckden.
Uncle Robert had "half-an-acre at Buckden which he had received by manorial custom as heir-at-law" see Pauline's background info..
http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo…
History of Buckden see...
http://www.buckden-village.co.uk/…
Second Reading
Bill • Link
Bugden, or Buckden, a village and parish in the St. Neots district of Huntingdonshire, four miles S.W. of Huntingdon.
---Wheatley, 1899.
Terry Foreman • Link
Buckden is a village and civil parish 3.7 miles (6.0 km) north of St Neots and 4 miles (6.4 km) south-west of Huntingdon. Buckden is in Huntingdonshire which is a non-metropolitan district of Cambridgeshire as well as a historic county of England. The small hamlets of Stirtloe and Hardwick are also in the parish of Buckden. Buckden is situated close to three major transport networks. The River Great Ouse forms the eastern boundary of the parish; the Great North Road used to pass right through the centre of the village. In the centre of Buckden is Buckden Palace which was a former residence of the bishops of Lincoln from the 12th century through to the early 19th century. A number of Kings of England have stayed at Buckden Palace and Catherine of Aragon was held there in 1533 before being moved to Kimbolton Castle in 1534.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buc…
San Diego Sarah • Link
Pictures and a Henry VIII history of Buckden Towers (Palace):
https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/…
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San Diego Sarah • Link
Pedro posted this in July 2004:
Buckden (near Brampton and mentioned in Uncle Robert's will).
Two factors helped shape the character of the village.
The first was Buckden Palace that was the residence of the Bishop of Lincoln and would have provided many of the villagers with employment and interest down the ages.
The second was the Great North Road that used to run through the middle of the village. It was an established main road from London to the North at the time of the Conquest (and, of course, the one used by the Bishops of Lincoln; hence their palace).