Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BUCKLAND

BUCKLAND, a parish in Reigate district, Surrey; on the Reading and Reigate railway, ½ a mile ESE of Betchworth station, and 2 W of Reigate. It has a post office under Reigate. Acres, 1,744. Real property, £2,710. Pop., 369. Houses, 61. The property is divided among a few. Buckland House is a chief residence. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Winchester. Value, £337.* Patron, All-Souls College, Oxford. The church was rebuilt in 1860. Spencer, the biographer of Archbishop Chicheley, was rector.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Buckland AP/CP       Reigate RegD/PLU       Surrey AncC
Place: Buckland

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