Buckland, Surrey

Buckland is a village and civil parish in the Mole Valley district of Surrey, England, between Dorking and Reigate, its nearest towns. The civil parish is bordered by the North Downs escarpment in the north. The area contains a number of sand pits.

Buckland
Village

Buckland windmill
Buckland
Location within Surrey
Area5.51 km2 (2.13 sq mi)
Population562 (Civil Parish 2011)[1]
• Density102/km2 (260/sq mi)
OS grid referenceTQ2251
Civil parish
  • Buckland
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townBetchworth
Postcode districtRH3
Dialling code01737
PoliceSurrey
FireSurrey
AmbulanceSouth East Coast
UK Parliament

History

Buckland appears in Domesday Book (of 1086) as Bochelant. It was owned by John of Tonbridge. Buckland had a church, watermill and thirty-five heads of household. Of these, seventeen farmed the land owned by the feudal lord, and ten were more lowly servants (serfs) of the estate.[2]

The village church St Mary the Virgin was built in 1380.[3] The windmill is a tourist focal point.

Local legend

Buckland is also the location of the Shag Brook, which local legend says was the home of a monstrous horse (in some versions a gorilla), called the Buckland Shag. This beast would drag travellers from the nearby coaching road and devour them on the Shag Stone, a large boulder in the brook with a blood red vein of iron ore running through it.[4]

The local parson, Willoughby Bertie, had the Shag Stone removed from the brook in 1757 and thrown from a cliff in Devon. The Buckland Shag then disappeared from local folklore.

The legend of the Buckland Shag has recently been revived by a local morris side, The Buckland Shag Morris Men.

Governance

Surrey County Council elected every four years, has one representative, from Buckland for Dorking Rural:

  • Helyn Clack, conservative who participates in these committees:
    • Cabinet Member for Community Services and the 2012 Games decisions
    • People, Performance and Development
    • The Mole Valley local committee (obligatory)[5]

The second party forming the main local opposition in the 2009 election, was the Liberal Democrats gaining 1956 votes versus the winning candidate's 2225.[6]

2 councillors sit on Mole Valley borough council, who are:

ElectionMember[7][8]

Ward

2011 John MuggeridgeBrockham, Betchworth & Buckland
2010 Paul PotterBrockham, Betchworth & Buckland

Demography and housing
2011 Census Homes
Output areaDetachedSemi-detachedTerracedFlats and apartmentsCaravans/temporary/mobile homesshared between households[1]
(Civil Parish)11876132540

The average level of accommodation in the region composed of detached houses was 28%, the average that was apartments was 22.6%.

2011 Census Key Statistics
Output areaPopulationHouseholds% Owned outright% Owned with a loanhectares[1]
(Civil Parish)56223639.8%30.5%551

The proportion of households in the civil parish who owned their home outright compares to the regional average of 35.1%. The proportion who owned their home with a loan compares to the regional average of 32.5%. The remaining % is made up of rented dwellings (plus a negligible % of households living rent-free).

Transport
Roads

The A25 runs east–west through the parish. No dual carriageways are in the parish.

Rail

The nearest railway station is centred 1 mile (1.6 km) WNW of the village centre, Betchworth railway station and is also on an east–west line.

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References
  1. Key Statistics; Quick Statistics: Population Density United Kingdom Census 2011 Office for National Statistics Retrieved 21 November 2013
  2. Surrey Domesday Book Archived July 8, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  3. "St Mary the Virgin". Archived from the original on 28 December 2004. Retrieved 31 May 2008.
  4. Dyer, F. Thiselton (2008). Strange Pages from Family Papers. London: Echo library. p. 344. ISBN 9781406827040. page 63
  5. Surrey Councillor details Surrey Councillor details
  6. Dorking Rural 2009 Election Results Archived 2009-06-11 at the Wayback Machine
  7. Mole Valley Councillors. Retrieved 2012-04-28
  8. Mole Valley Results 2009-11
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