Buckland & New Chipping
Adjacent Parishes: Barkway, Layston, Reed, Sandon, Therfield, Throcking, Wyddial
It is in Edwinstree Hundred and the Buntingford Union
[Note: There is a Buckland in Buckinghamshire adjoining the county boundary, and unqualified references to "Buckland" in the Tring area may well refer to the Buckinghamshire village.]
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Buckland is a tiny village on Ermine Street, where it crosses the chalk uplands between Buntingford and Royston: the church is at the highest point away from the road. The nave and chancel date from about 1348; the tower, south aisle, porch and south door from the 1400s. There is some enjoyable mediaeval stone carving in corbels flanking the windows, also mediaeval glass, 15th century brasses, memorials from later years and a medley of 19th century fittings. It is now maintained by the Churches Conservation Trust |
| BUCKLAND, a parish in the hundred of Edwinstree, county of Hertford, 2 miles (W.S.W.) from Barkway, containing 343 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Middlesex, and diocese of London, rated in the king's books at £20, and in the patronage of the Provost and Fellows of King's College, Cambridge. The church is dedicated to St Andrew. |
Postcard of Chipping (circa 1905?) in Robert H Clark
series
Buckland (7 miles N.) is crossed by the Roman road of Ermine Street on which stand both the village of Buckland and the hamlet of Chipping. The parish church was erected in 1348 but has a font of Barnack stone which is possibly 900 years old. Fragments of 14th century glass remain in some of the windows of this church.
Braughing Rural District Official Guide 1971
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Buckland No publisher information Posted 1905 in Buntingford from very faded photograph |
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Buckland John Bishop & Son, Photographers Posted 1916
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 St Andrews, Buckland |
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See also Vital Records
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Page updated November 2007
