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class="mergedtoprow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Great_Tower_and_St.Mary%27s_church_-_geograph.org.uk_-_731862.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Great_Tower_and_St.Mary%27s_church_-_geograph.org.uk_-_731862.jpg/250px-Great_Tower_and_St.Mary%27s_church_-_geograph.org.uk_-_731862.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="196" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Great_Tower_and_St.Mary%27s_church_-_geograph.org.uk_-_731862.jpg/375px-Great_Tower_and_St.Mary%27s_church_-_geograph.org.uk_-_731862.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Great_Tower_and_St.Mary%27s_church_-_geograph.org.uk_-_731862.jpg/500px-Great_Tower_and_St.Mary%27s_church_-_geograph.org.uk_-_731862.jpg 2x" data-file-width="504" data-file-height="396" /></a></span><div><a href="/wiki/Buckden_Towers" title="Buckden Towers">Buckden 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in Cambridgeshire">Cambridgeshire</a></dd></dl></div> <span class="geo-inline"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Buckden,_Cambridgeshire&params=52.293446_N_0.252419_W_region:GB_type:city(2805)"><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">52°17′36″N</span> <span class="longitude">0°15′09″W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">52.293446°N 0.252419°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">52.293446; -0.252419</span></span></span></a></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Buckden</b> is a village and <a href="/wiki/Civil_parish" title="Civil parish">civil parish</a> 3.7 miles (6.0 km) north of <a href="/wiki/St_Neots" title="St Neots">St Neots</a> and 4 miles (6.4 km) south-west of <a href="/wiki/Huntingdon" title="Huntingdon">Huntingdon</a>, England. It includes the hamlets of Stirtloe and Hardwick. It lies in <a href="/wiki/Huntingdonshire" title="Huntingdonshire">Huntingdonshire</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Non-metropolitan_district" title="Non-metropolitan district">non-metropolitan district</a> of <a href="/wiki/Cambridgeshire" title="Cambridgeshire">Cambridgeshire</a> and a <a href="/wiki/Historic_counties_of_England" title="Historic counties of England">historic county</a>, close to three transport routes of past and present: the <a href="/wiki/Great_Ouse" class="mw-redirect" title="Great Ouse">River Great Ouse</a>, along its eastern boundary, the <a href="/wiki/Great_North_Road_(Great_Britain)" title="Great North Road (Great Britain)">Great North Road</a> that once crossed the village, but now bypasses it to the west, and the <a href="/wiki/East_Coast_Mainline" class="mw-redirect" title="East Coast Mainline">East Coast Mainline</a> along the eastern side of the Great Ouse valley in the neighbouring parish of <a href="/wiki/The_Offords" title="The Offords">The Offords</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Features">Features</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Buckden,_Cambridgeshire&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Features"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the centre of the village is <a href="/wiki/Buckden_Towers" title="Buckden Towers">Buckden Towers</a>, once Buckden Palace, a residence of the bishops of Lincoln from the 12th to early 19th centuries. Several kings of England stayed there and <a href="/wiki/Catherine_of_Aragon" title="Catherine of Aragon">Catherine of Aragon</a> was held there in 1533 before being moved to <a href="/wiki/Kimbolton_Castle" title="Kimbolton Castle">Kimbolton Castle</a> in 1534. </p><p>Buckden prospered in the 18th and early 19th centuries from being just over 50 miles (80 km) north of London on the Great North Road, which was a busy <a href="/wiki/Coach_(carriage)" title="Coach (carriage)">coaching</a> road at the time. The development of the railways in the mid-19th century led to a decline in the population, but it more than doubled in the second half of the 20th century. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Buckden,_Cambridgeshire&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Toponymy">Toponymy</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Buckden,_Cambridgeshire&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Toponymy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Recorded in the <a href="/wiki/Domesday_Book" title="Domesday Book">Domesday Book</a> of 1086 as <i>Bugedene</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-Powell-Smith_2015_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Powell-Smith_2015-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Buckden has also been referred to as <i>Buggeden</i> (12–13th centuries), <i>Bokeden</i> (13th–14th centuries), <i>Bukeden</i> (13th–14th centuries), and <i><a href="/wiki/Bugden" title="Bugden">Bugden</a></i> (15th–18th centuries),<sup id="cite_ref-HGEPN_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HGEPN-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> with the present spelling taking over in the 18th century. The name originates from Old English; "Bucge" is a personal name and "dene" an Old English word for valley. The name is still pronounced Bugden locally. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Roman">Roman</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Buckden,_Cambridgeshire&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Roman"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Evidence of Roman settlement was found in 1963–1964 at a quarry site to the east of the village. In 1981, signs of a Roman villa appeared close to the Towers. Excavations in 2006 to the north-east of the village revealed evidence of a Romano-British field system of the 1st–4th centuries CE. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Middle_Ages">Middle Ages</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Buckden,_Cambridgeshire&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Middle Ages"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1961, excavations uncovered crucibles and crucible fragments that appear to have been used to manufacture white and yellow glass and to date from Anglo-Saxon times. The site of the find was 0.5 miles (0.8 km) to the north-east of Buckden village, in an area of the Great Ouse valley about to be mined for sand and gravel.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>"Bugedene" was listed in the <a href="/wiki/Domesday_Book" title="Domesday Book">Domesday Book</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Hundred_(county_division)" title="Hundred (county division)">Hundred</a> of Toseland, Huntingdonshire.<sup id="cite_ref-PenIndex_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PenIndex-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1086 there was a single manor at Buckden, whose annual rent of £20 paid to the lord of the manor in 1066 had fallen to £16.10s.<sup id="cite_ref-OD86_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-OD86-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Domesday Book mentions 58 households at Buckden,<sup id="cite_ref-OD86_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-OD86-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> suggesting a population of 200–300. It states there were 19 <a href="/wiki/Carucate" title="Carucate">ploughlands</a> there in 1086, with capacity for a further one.<sup id="cite_ref-OD86_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-OD86-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Apart from that, it had 84 acres (34 hectares) of meadows, 3,784 acres (1,531 hectares) of woodland and a <a href="/wiki/Water_mill" class="mw-redirect" title="Water mill">water mill</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-OD86_6-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-OD86-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The total manor tax assessment was 20 <a href="/wiki/Danegeld" title="Danegeld">guilders</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-OD86_6-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-OD86-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>By 1086 the village had a church and priest. The land was then owned by the <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Lincoln" title="Bishop of Lincoln">Bishop of Lincoln</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Powell-Smith_2015_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Powell-Smith_2015-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> who may already have had a house there. He certainly had one when the Bishop held court by the mid–12th century. In 1227 Henry III granted the Bishop the right to a <a href="/wiki/Deer_park_(England)" title="Deer park (England)">deer park</a> at Buckden; by the time of a survey in 1647 this covered 425 acres and contained some 200 deer. By the late 17th century the deer were gone and the land enclosed as fields. The deer park lay to the west of the parish.<sup id="cite_ref-Book_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Book-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Buckden later had two manors. The larger was Buckden and the Members, whose lords were the bishops of Lincoln except in brief periods of the 14th, 16th and 17th centuries. The smaller, Buckden Brittains, was the home of the Briton (or Le Briton) family in the 13th century, but later changed hands many times.<sup id="cite_ref-BHO_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BHO-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By the early 19th century, about 1,200 acres (490 hectares) were owned by the manor of Buckden and the Members and about 225 acres (91 hectares) by the manor of Buckden Brittains.<sup id="cite_ref-Book_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Book-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>English kings who stayed at Buckden Palace were <a href="/wiki/Henry_III_of_England" title="Henry III of England">Henry III</a> in 1248, <a href="/wiki/Edward_I_of_England" title="Edward I of England">Edward I</a> in 1291 and <a href="/wiki/Richard_III_of_England" title="Richard III of England">Richard III</a> in 1483. <a href="/wiki/Henry_VIII" title="Henry VIII">Henry VIII</a> sent <a href="/wiki/Catherine_of_Aragon" title="Catherine of Aragon">Catherine of Aragon</a> to Buckden Palace after the annulment of their marriage (an issue known as the <a href="/wiki/Catherine_of_Aragon#The_King's_great_matter" title="Catherine of Aragon">King's Great Matter</a>), from July 1533 to May 1534. He and his fifth wife, <a href="/wiki/Catherine_Howard" title="Catherine Howard">Catherine Howard</a>, stayed there in 1541.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On Friday 18 June 1641, "hundreds of women and boys, armed with Daggers and Javelins, in a very tumultuous and riotous Manner" entered some land at Buckden owned by the Bishop of Lincoln and "turned in a great herd of cattle".<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Georgian_period">Georgian period</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Buckden,_Cambridgeshire&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Georgian period"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Buckden's site on the Great North Road made it a popular coaching stop in the 18th century. It had four <a href="/wiki/Coaching_inn" title="Coaching inn">coaching inns</a>. <i>The Lion</i> dates from the 15th century and was enlarged in the 18th. <i>The George Inn</i>, with its courtyard and forge, was remodelled in the 18th century. <i>The Vine</i> dated from the first half of the 17th century and was rebuilt in the 18th to include stables and its own brewery. <i>The Spread Eagle</i>, originating in the 17th century, was altered in the 18th; it had stabling and paddocks.<sup id="cite_ref-Book_7-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Book-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A schedule of 1839 shows six express coaches heading north every day, to Boston, Leeds, Lincoln and York, and as many heading south to London.<sup id="cite_ref-Book_7-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Book-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The presence of elegant Georgian houses in Church Street and the High Street (the former Great North Road) reflects the prosperity brought by its strategic position on the coaching route. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Victorian_and_modern_times">Victorian and modern times</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Buckden,_Cambridgeshire&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Victorian and modern times"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1854, just 15 years later, Buckden was called "a quiet insignificant place compared to what it was in coaching times", with the advent of the railways. The population, having steadily risen from 869 in 1801 to a peak of 1,291 in 1841, fell to 995 by 1911.<sup id="cite_ref-Book_7-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Book-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The open fields in Buckden were enclosed by Act of Parliament in 1813. In 1842 a girls' school was opened (a boys' school having existed for over a century) and a new school building built in 1871. A <a href="/wiki/Post_mill" title="Post mill">post mill</a> erected in 1830 worked until 1888, when an auxiliary steam engine was installed. The mill was demolished in 1893. Domesday mentions a water mill on the Great Ouse; this was rebuilt about 1850 and converted to steam power in the 1890s.<sup id="cite_ref-Book_7-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Book-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It ran until 1965, and from then until the 1980s was used for crop storage.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By 2015, it had been turned into housing. </p><p>In the second half of the 20th century, new housing estates in Buckden led to a marked increase in the population. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Governance">Governance</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Buckden,_Cambridgeshire&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Governance"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Village_Hall,_Buckden.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Village_Hall%2C_Buckden.jpg/220px-Village_Hall%2C_Buckden.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="124" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Village_Hall%2C_Buckden.jpg/330px-Village_Hall%2C_Buckden.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Village_Hall%2C_Buckden.jpg/440px-Village_Hall%2C_Buckden.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4065" data-file-height="2286" /></a><figcaption>Village Hall, Burberry Road</figcaption></figure> <p>Buckden as a civil parish had an elected <a href="/wiki/Parish_councils_in_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Parish councils in England">parish council</a> of 15 members in 2020.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-BPC_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BPC-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The second tier of governance is <a href="/wiki/Huntingdonshire_District_Council" title="Huntingdonshire District Council">Huntingdonshire District Council</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Non-metropolitan_district" title="Non-metropolitan district">non-metropolitan district</a> of Cambridgeshire.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The parish council is based at the village hall on Burberry Road, which was built in 1999.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Buckden is represented on <a href="/wiki/Huntingdonshire" title="Huntingdonshire">Huntingdonshire District Council</a> by one councillor for the Buckden district ward, which covers the civil parishes of Buckden, <a href="/wiki/Diddington" title="Diddington">Diddington</a> and <a href="/wiki/Southoe_and_Midloe" title="Southoe and Midloe">Southoe and Midloe</a>, and on <a href="/wiki/Cambridgeshire_County_Council" title="Cambridgeshire County Council">Cambridgeshire County Council</a> by one councillor for the Buckden, Gransden and The Offords electoral division. It belongs to the parliamentary constituency of <a href="/wiki/Huntingdon_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Huntingdon (UK Parliament constituency)">Huntingdon County</a>, held since 2015 by <a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Djanogly" title="Jonathan Djanogly">Jonathan Djanogly</a> (Conservative). </p><p>Buckden was in the historic and <a href="/wiki/Administrative_county" title="Administrative county">administrative county</a> of <a href="/wiki/Huntingdonshire" title="Huntingdonshire">Huntingdonshire</a> until 1965. From then it was part of a new administrative county of <a href="/wiki/Huntingdon_and_Peterborough" title="Huntingdon and Peterborough">Huntingdon and Peterborough</a>. In 1974, after the <a href="/wiki/Local_Government_Act_1972" title="Local Government Act 1972">Local Government Act 1972</a>, it became a part of Cambridgeshire. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Geography">Geography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Buckden,_Cambridgeshire&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Geography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Buckden">Buckden</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Buckden,_Cambridgeshire&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Buckden"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The village of Buckden lies about 1.7 miles (2.7 km) west of the River <a href="/wiki/Great_Ouse" class="mw-redirect" title="Great Ouse">Great Ouse</a>. Between the Great Ouse and Buckden there are a number of disused, flooded gravel quarries. The village lies on sloping ground on the western edge of the river valley. Just to the west is the <a href="/wiki/A1_road_(Great_Britain)" title="A1 road (Great Britain)">A1 road</a>, following the route of the <a href="/wiki/Great_North_Road_(Great_Britain)" title="Great North Road (Great Britain)">Great North Road</a> roughly north and south. Access from the A1 is via a roundabout at the southern edge of Buckden. The western half of the parish slopes gently with low hills. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Stirtloe_geograph-1889714-by-Mick-Lobb.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Stirtloe_geograph-1889714-by-Mick-Lobb.jpg/220px-Stirtloe_geograph-1889714-by-Mick-Lobb.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Stirtloe_geograph-1889714-by-Mick-Lobb.jpg/330px-Stirtloe_geograph-1889714-by-Mick-Lobb.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Stirtloe_geograph-1889714-by-Mick-Lobb.jpg/440px-Stirtloe_geograph-1889714-by-Mick-Lobb.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1500" data-file-height="996" /></a><figcaption>Stirtloe Lane, Stirtloe</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Hamlets">Hamlets</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Buckden,_Cambridgeshire&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Hamlets"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The hamlet of Hardwick is joined to the north-west of Buckden village, but on the western side of the A1. There is a pedestrian subway under the A1 to connect it. </p><p>The hamlet of Stirtloe lies to the south of Buckden, separated from the village by 220 yards (200 m) of fields. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Geology">Geology</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Buckden,_Cambridgeshire&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Geology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The village and parish lie on a bedrock of Oxford Clay Formation mudstone of blue-grey or olive-coloured clay formed some 156–165 million years ago in the <a href="/wiki/Jurassic_Period" class="mw-redirect" title="Jurassic Period">Jurassic Period</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-BGS_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BGS-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The central area has <a href="/wiki/River_terrace" class="mw-redirect" title="River terrace">river terrace</a> deposits of sand and gravel from the <a href="/wiki/Quaternary_period" class="mw-redirect" title="Quaternary period">Quaternary period</a>, formed up to 3 million years ago by rivers. On the eastern side there are superficial deposits of <a href="/wiki/Alluvium" title="Alluvium">alluvium</a> (clay, silt, sand and gravel) from up to 2 million years ago in the Quaternary period. The land to the west of the parish is marked by Oadby Member <a href="/wiki/Diamicton" title="Diamicton">Diamicton</a>, again of the Quaternary period, with rocks formed under Ice Age conditions by glaciers scouring the land in the last 2 million years.<sup id="cite_ref-BGS_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BGS-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On the western side of the parish, the soil is classed as lime-rich loam and clay with impeded drainage. The central part, where the village lies, has freely draining, slightly acid loamy soil. On the eastern side, the soil is similar, but base-rich and loamy.<sup id="cite_ref-MagicMap_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MagicMap-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The farmland in the parish is mainly arable, but with grassland notable in the Great Ouse valley.<sup id="cite_ref-MagicMap_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MagicMap-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It lies between 39 feet (12 m) and 180 feet (55 m) above ordnance datum and covers an area of 3,114 acres (1,260 hectares). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Location">Location</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Buckden,_Cambridgeshire&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Location"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link 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alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Pfeil_oben.svg/14px-Pfeil_oben.svg.png" decoding="async" width="14" height="17" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Pfeil_oben.svg/21px-Pfeil_oben.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Pfeil_oben.svg/28px-Pfeil_oben.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="600" /></span></span></td> <td></td> </tr><tr> <td style="width:33%"><a href="/wiki/Grafham,_Cambridgeshire" title="Grafham, Cambridgeshire">Grafham</a></td> <td style="width:33%;"> <div style="white-space:nowrap;"><span class="mw-valign-middle" typeof="mw:File"><span title="West"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Pfeil_links.svg/17px-Pfeil_links.svg.png" decoding="async" width="17" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Pfeil_links.svg/25px-Pfeil_links.svg.png 1.5x, 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title="South"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Pfeil_unten.svg/14px-Pfeil_unten.svg.png" decoding="async" width="14" height="17" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Pfeil_unten.svg/21px-Pfeil_unten.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Pfeil_unten.svg/28px-Pfeil_unten.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="600" /></span></span></td> <td></td> </tr><tr> <td></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Diddington" title="Diddington">Diddington</a></td> <td></td> </tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <p>The southern boundary of the parish follows the line of Diddington Brook and the eastern boundary follows the River Great Ouse. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Climate">Climate</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Buckden,_Cambridgeshire&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Climate"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The UK climate, defined like most of north-west Europe as <a href="/wiki/Temperate" class="mw-redirect" title="Temperate">temperate</a> and <a href="/wiki/Oceanic_climate" title="Oceanic climate">oceanic</a>, or <i>Cfb</i> under the <a href="/wiki/K%C3%B6ppen_climate_classification" title="Köppen climate classification">Köppen climate classification</a> system,<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> makes Eastern areas such as <a href="/wiki/East_Anglia" title="East Anglia">East Anglia</a> drier, cooler and less windy, with greater daily and seasonal temperature variations. Cambridgeshire has cool onshore coastal breezes further to the east, keeping it warm in summer and cold and frosty in winter. </p><p>The nearest <a href="/wiki/Met_Office" title="Met Office">Met Office</a> station to Buckden is at Monks Wood near Alconbury, 9 miles (14 km) north of Buckden. Average annual rainfall for the UK in 1981–2010 was 1,154 millimetres (45.4 in), but Cambridgeshire is one of the driest counties with about half that amount. Regional <a href="/wiki/Weather_forecasting" title="Weather forecasting">weather forecasting</a> and historical summaries are available from the UK <a href="/wiki/Met_Office" title="Met Office">Met Office</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Additional local weather stations report periodic figures to the internet such as <a href="/wiki/Weather_Underground_(weather_service)" title="Weather Underground (weather service)">Weather Underground</a>, Inc.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div> <table class="wikitable mw-collapsible" style="width:auto; text-align:center; line-height:1.2em;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="14">Climate data for Monks Wood, elevation 41m, (1981–2010 averages) </th></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Month </th> <th scope="col">Jan </th> <th scope="col">Feb </th> <th scope="col">Mar </th> <th scope="col">Apr </th> <th scope="col">May </th> <th scope="col">Jun </th> <th scope="col">Jul </th> <th scope="col">Aug </th> <th scope="col">Sep </th> <th scope="col">Oct </th> <th scope="col">Nov </th> <th scope="col">Dec </th> <th scope="col" style="border-left-width:medium">Year </th></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Mean daily maximum °C (°F) </th> <td style="background: #FFECD9; color:#000000;" class="notheme">7.2<br />(45.0) </td> <td style="background: #FFE8D2; color:#000000;" class="notheme">7.7<br />(45.9) </td> <td style="background: #FFD4A9; color:#000000;" class="notheme">10.7<br />(51.3) </td> <td style="background: #FFC082; color:#000000;" class="notheme">13.5<br />(56.3) </td> <td style="background: #FFAA55; color:#000000;" class="notheme">16.8<br />(62.2) </td> <td style="background: #FF962D; color:#000000;" class="notheme">19.7<br />(67.5) </td> <td style="background: #FF8308; color:#000000;" class="notheme">22.4<br />(72.3) </td> <td style="background: #FF8409; color:#000000;" class="notheme">22.3<br />(72.1) </td> <td style="background: #FF9934; color:#000000;" class="notheme">19.2<br />(66.6) </td> <td style="background: #FFB66E; color:#000000;" class="notheme">15.0<br />(59.0) </td> <td style="background: #FFD7AF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">10.3<br />(50.5) </td> <td style="background: #FFEBD7; color:#000000;" class="notheme">7.4<br />(45.3) </td> <td style="background: #FFBA76; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">14.4<br />(57.9) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Mean daily minimum °C (°F) </th> <td style="background: #ECECFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">1.1<br />(34.0) </td> <td style="background: #EBEBFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.8<br />(33.4) </td> <td style="background: #F4F4FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">2.6<br />(36.7) </td> <td style="background: #FBFBFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">3.8<br />(38.8) </td> <td style="background: #FFF0E2; color:#000000;" class="notheme">6.6<br />(43.9) </td> <td style="background: #FFDBB7; color:#000000;" class="notheme">9.7<br />(49.5) </td> <td style="background: #FFCC9A; color:#000000;" class="notheme">11.8<br />(53.2) </td> <td style="background: #FFCD9B; color:#000000;" class="notheme">11.7<br />(53.1) </td> <td style="background: #FFD9B4; color:#000000;" class="notheme">9.9<br />(49.8) </td> <td style="background: #FFEDDC; color:#000000;" class="notheme">7.0<br />(44.6) </td> <td style="background: #FBFBFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">3.9<br />(39.0) </td> <td style="background: #F0F0FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">1.9<br />(35.4) </td> <td style="background: #FFF5EB; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">5.9<br />(42.6) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Average rainfall mm (inches) </th> <td style="background: #B8B8FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">47.0<br />(1.85) </td> <td style="background: #C5C5FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">35.0<br />(1.38) </td> <td style="background: #C3C3FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">40.1<br />(1.58) </td> <td style="background: #B6B6FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">47.0<br />(1.85) </td> <td style="background: #B7B7FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">47.9<br />(1.89) </td> <td style="background: #ABABFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">54.1<br />(2.13) </td> <td style="background: #B7B7FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">48.3<br />(1.90) </td> <td style="background: #B1B1FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">51.7<br />(2.04) </td> <td style="background: #ACACFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">53.3<br />(2.10) </td> <td style="background: #A5A5FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">60.2<br />(2.37) </td> <td style="background: #ABABFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">54.2<br />(2.13) </td> <td style="background: #B8B8FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">47.1<br />(1.85) </td> <td style="background: #B4B4FF; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">585.8<br />(23.06) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Mean monthly <a href="/wiki/Sunshine_duration" title="Sunshine duration">sunshine hours</a> </th> <td style="background: #6A6A6A; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">58.0 </td> <td style="background: #9B9B9B; color:#000000;" class="notheme">77.4 </td> <td style="background: #B1B17B; color:#000000;" class="notheme">109.9 </td> <td style="background: #C7C700; color:#000000;" class="notheme">152.3 </td> <td style="background: #D4D400; color:#000000;" class="notheme">186.2 </td> <td style="background: #D4D400; color:#000000;" class="notheme">180.6 </td> <td style="background: #D6D600; color:#000000;" class="notheme">193.3 </td> <td style="background: #D4D400; color:#000000;" class="notheme">188.1 </td> <td style="background: #C2C215; color:#000000;" class="notheme">142.5 </td> <td style="background: #B3B36E; color:#000000;" class="notheme">114.6 </td> <td style="background: #7E7E7E; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">67.0 </td> <td style="background: #5F5F5F; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">52.4 </td> <td style="background: #BABA46; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">1,522.2 </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="14" style="text-align:center;font-size:95%;">Source: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/climate/gcrc7jt09">Met Office Monks Wood, Cambridgeshire</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Demography">Demography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Buckden,_Cambridgeshire&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Demography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The usual resident population of Buckden parish in the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom_Census_2011" class="mw-redirect" title="United Kingdom Census 2011">2011 census</a> was 2,805 – 48.1 per cent male and 51.9 per cent female.<sup id="cite_ref-C2011_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-C2011-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The population density was 576.6 per square mile (223 per km<sup>2</sup>). Of the 1,260 households, 28.0 per cent had one member and 68.4 per cent one family group, while 3.6 per cent were of other types. The census showed 27.7 per cent of households with one or more dependent children under the age of 18, and 30.6 per cent consisting of people all over the age of 65. The mean average number of persons per household was 2.4.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Of the usually resident population in 2011, 20.4 per cent were under the age of 18, 55.4 per cent between 18 and 65, and 24.2 per cent over the age of 65.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The mean average age of residents was 44.1 years and the median age 47 years.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2011, 70.2 per cent of Buckden residents were between the ages of 16 and 74 and found potentially economically active. Of these, 67.9 per cent held part-time, full-time or self-employed work, 30.0 per cent were economically inactive (retired, carers, long-term sick and disabled) and 2.0 per cent unemployed. The five main work sectors appear below:<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <table class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;font-size: 9pt"> <tbody><tr> <th width="350">Industry Sector<br /> </th> <th width="80">Percentage<br /> </th></tr> <tr> <td align="Left">Wholesale and Retail (including repair of motor vehicles) </td> <td align="center">13.1% </td></tr> <tr> <td align="Left">Human Health and Social Work </td> <td align="center">10.2% </td></tr> <tr> <td align="Left">Public Administration, Defence and Social Security </td> <td align="center">10.1% </td></tr> <tr> <td align="Left">Education </td> <td align="center">8.9% </td></tr> <tr> <td align="Left">Construction </td> <td align="center">8.8% </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>In 2009, median household income across Cambridgeshire of £32,500 was exceeded by Buckden's £36,900.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Office_for_National_Statistics" title="Office for National Statistics">Office for National Statistics</a> has placed the village of Buckden in the Lower Layer Super Output Area (LSOA) called "Huntingdonshire 017C". This was ranked 23,371 out of 32,844 LSOAs in England against the index of multiple deprivation in 2015. It puts Buckden among the 30 per cent least deprived neighbourhoods in England.<sup id="cite_ref-IMD2015_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IMD2015-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Much of the civil parish (but excluding the village itself) is in the Lower Layer Super Output Area (LSOA) called "Huntingdonshire 017B", which in 2015, was ranked 29,569 out of 32,844 LSOAs in England against the index of multiple deprivation. This puts the rural part of the parish among the 10 per cent least deprived neighbourhoods in England.<sup id="cite_ref-IMD2015_27-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IMD2015-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Buckden is ethnically homogenous. The 2011 census showed 93 per cent of residents born in the UK, 3 per cent in other EU countries and 4 per cent elsewhere in the world.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Racially, 98.3 per cent of Buckden people called themselves ethnic white, 0.8 per cent cited mixed or multiple ethnic groups, and 0.6 per cent Asian or British Asian, with the rest in other groups.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the same census, 69.3 per cent called themselves as Christian, 23.2 per cent said they had no religious beliefs, 6.3 per cent did not specify a religion, and 1.1 per cent adhered to another religion (Buddhist, Hindu, Jewish, Muslim, Sikh or other).<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Historical_population">Historical population</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Buckden,_Cambridgeshire&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Historical population"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The population of the parish of Buckden as recorded in the UK censuses between 1801 and 1901 ranged between 869 and 1,209. The population of Buckden almost doubled in the 1960s. </p> <table class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;font-size: 9pt"> <tbody><tr> <th width="150">Parish<br /> </th> <th width="30">1911<br /> </th> <th width="30">1921<br /> </th> <th width="30">1931<br /> </th> <th width="30">1951<br /> </th> <th width="30">1961<br /> </th> <th width="30">1971<br /> </th> <th width="30">1991<br /> </th> <th width="30">2001<br /> </th> <th width="30">2011 <br /> </th></tr> <tr> <td align="left">Buckden </td> <td align="center">995 </td> <td align="center">998 </td> <td align="center">1,037 </td> <td align="center">1,057 </td> <td align="center">1,158 </td> <td align="center">2,010 </td> <td align="center">2,535 </td> <td align="center">2,515 </td> <td align="center">2,805 </td></tr> </tbody></table> <p><small> Census: Buckden 1801–1971<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Census Population: Buckden 1951, 1971, 1991<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Census Population: Buckden 2001–2011<sup id="cite_ref-C2011_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-C2011-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-C2001_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-C2001-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </small> </p><p>The population of Buckden district ward of, which includes the parishes of Diddington and of Southloe and Midloe, was 3,293 in the 2011 UK census.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Culture_and_community">Culture and community</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Buckden,_Cambridgeshire&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Culture and community"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1871, Buckden had 13 inns and public houses,<sup id="cite_ref-Book_7-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Book-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but by 2015 only three remained: <i>The George</i>, <i>The Vine</i> and <i>The Lion Hotel</i>. The <i>Spread Eagle</i>, which closed in 2003, is now a private house. All four former coaching inns are Grade II listed buildings. Buckden has some shops, including supermarkets, a post office, a pharmacy and clothiers, and over 100 private businesses based there. </p><p>Buckden Marina, built in 1963,<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> is next to the Great Ouse; originally with some 150 berths but now 240, over an area of 22 acres (8.9 hectares). In 2001, Lafarge Aggregates and Buckden Marina Co. was joint winner of the Cooper–Heyman Cup, awarded by the Quarry Products Association, for restoring a 70 acres (28 hectares) quarry as a water-recreation complex and wildlife area.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The first issue the monthly community magazine <i>Buckden Roundabout</i> appeared in September 1979. A charitable trust set up in 1958 manages the village hall and the adjacent recreation ground of some 12 acres (4.9 hectares), with four tennis courts, a children's play area, cricket and football pitches and a bowls green. There are clubs for cricket, association football club, and bowls club (founded in 1929). The village hall was expanded in the early 21st century as Buckden Millennium Village Hall. It includes a library.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Transport">Transport</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Buckden,_Cambridgeshire&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Transport"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Buckden is close to the A1 main road, and its primary connection to it is a roundabout at the south end of the village. Until 1962 the <a href="/wiki/Great_North_Road_(Great_Britain)" title="Great North Road (Great Britain)">Great North Road</a> ran through Buckden, but the construction of the A1 in 1962 relieved the traffic pressure. The B661 road runs west from the roundabout, giving access to <a href="/wiki/Grafham_Water" title="Grafham Water">Grafham Water</a>, <a href="/wiki/Great_Staughton" title="Great Staughton">Great Staughton</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kimbolton,_Cambridgeshire" title="Kimbolton, Cambridgeshire">Kimbolton</a>. A minor road runs east to Buckden Marina and <a href="/wiki/Offord_Cluny" title="Offord Cluny">Offord Cluny</a>. The B1514 road leads north-east to <a href="/wiki/Huntingdon" title="Huntingdon">Huntingdon</a> through <a href="/wiki/Brampton,_Cambridgeshire" title="Brampton, Cambridgeshire">Brampton</a>, branching from the A1 a short distance north of Buckden. </p><p>Buckden lent its name to two railway stations, both outside the parish. To the north, a line from Kettering to Huntingdon was built in 1866 and a station called <a href="/wiki/Buckden_station" class="mw-redirect" title="Buckden station">Buckden</a> opened. Services ran between Kettering and Cambridge from 1882 until 1959, after which the line was dismantled.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Another station, in the neighbouring village of Offord Cluny on the Great Northern Main Line, was called <a href="/wiki/Offord_and_Buckden_railway_station" title="Offord and Buckden railway station">Offord and Buckden</a>. It opened in 1851 and was extended in 1898, but closed by 1959.<sup id="cite_ref-Book_7-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Book-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Today's nearest station is 3.5 miles (5.6 km) away at <a href="/wiki/Huntingdon_railway_station" title="Huntingdon railway station">Huntingdon</a>, where regular services run south to London and north to Peterborough and beyond. </p><p>On weekdays and Saturdays there is an hourly bus service between Huntingdon and St Neots that stops in Buckden, at the Green. The operator is Whippet, route 66.<sup id="cite_ref-whippet_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-whippet-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Ouse_Valley_Way" title="Ouse Valley Way">Ouse Valley Way</a> is a 150 miles (240 km) footpath that follows the River Great Ouse from its source near <a href="/wiki/Syresham" title="Syresham">Syresham</a> in Northamptonshire to its mouth in <a href="/wiki/The_Wash" title="The Wash">The Wash</a> near <a href="/wiki/King%27s_Lynn" title="King's Lynn">King's Lynn</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Landmarks">Landmarks</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Buckden,_Cambridgeshire&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Landmarks"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Buckden_Towers" title="Buckden Towers">Buckden Towers</a> (or Buckden Palace) was a former residence of the <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Lincoln" title="Bishop of Lincoln">Bishop of Lincoln</a>, whose medieval diocese reached almost to London. A house was built by the mid-12th century, where the Bishop held court, but it burnt down in 1291 and was rebuilt. Further rebuilding and extension took place in the 15th century, including a new red-brick tower<sup id="cite_ref-Book_7-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Book-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> of a similar design to <a href="/wiki/Tattershall_Castle,_Lincolnshire" title="Tattershall Castle, Lincolnshire">Tattershall Castle, Lincolnshire</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-ConArea_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ConArea-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> although that of Buckden has only four storeys. Buckden Palace accommodated Catherine of Aragon for a short time before she was moved to <a href="/wiki/Kimbolton_Castle" title="Kimbolton Castle">Kimbolton Castle</a>. The palace was neglected in the earlier 17th century. A survey in 1647 included a Great Chamber, chapel, brick tower and gatehouse, all enclosed by a moat. The grounds had at least four fishponds and the park about 200 deer.<sup id="cite_ref-Book_7-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Book-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Huntingdonshire, with Buckden Palace, was transferred from the Diocese of Lincoln to that of Ely in 1837. Several parts were demolished in the 19th century and many that remained were used by the local vicar and a school. In 1848 the palace was described as a "venerable structure".<sup id="cite_ref-Topo_41-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Topo-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It passed into private ownership in 1870 and was renamed Buckden Towers. The Victorian house currently on the site dates from 1872. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Gatehouse,_Buckden_Towers_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1254999.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Gatehouse%2C_Buckden_Towers_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1254999.jpg/300px-Gatehouse%2C_Buckden_Towers_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1254999.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="225" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Gatehouse%2C_Buckden_Towers_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1254999.jpg/450px-Gatehouse%2C_Buckden_Towers_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1254999.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Gatehouse%2C_Buckden_Towers_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1254999.jpg/600px-Gatehouse%2C_Buckden_Towers_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1254999.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="480" /></a><figcaption>The Gatehouse at Buckden Towers</figcaption></figure> <p>Between 1914 and 1919 Buckden Towers was used as a Red Cross hospital and in the <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">Second World War</a> as a home for evacuees from the London blitz. After the war Buckden Towers was passed to the Roman Catholic church and in 1956 to <a href="/wiki/Claretian" class="mw-redirect" title="Claretian">Claretian</a> missionaries, who carried out restoration and built a Catholic church for the village.<sup id="cite_ref-StHugh_42-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-StHugh-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The site of the original palace is designated an ancient monument and Victorian Buckden Towers as a Grade II listed building; the Inner Gatehouse, Curtain Wall and Towers of the earlier Buckden Palace are all Grade I listed buildings. Apart from these and the former coaching inns, the parish has more than 60 other listed buildings, mainly round Buckden Towers.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Much of the centre round Buckden Towers, along the High Street and Church Street, has been designated a Conservation Area by Huntingdonshire District Council.<sup id="cite_ref-ConArea_40-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ConArea-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>To the east, in the <a href="/wiki/Great_Ouse" class="mw-redirect" title="Great Ouse">Great Ouse</a> valley, are several small lakes where gravel pits used to be. The enclosure map of 1813 shows the position of one and another appears on an Ordnance Survey map of 1926. Not until the 1960s did large-scale gravel and sand extraction take place, needed for two major local construction projects: the dual carriageway of the A1 and the dam at Graham Water.<sup id="cite_ref-Book_7-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Book-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1986 the pits covered 400 acres (160 hectares).<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Buckden Marina was built in a small disused gravel pit close to the Great Ouse. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Education">Education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Buckden,_Cambridgeshire&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1661 a parish <a href="/wiki/Charity_school" title="Charity school">charity school</a> was founded in Buckden for boys. It still existed when in 1842 a <a href="/wiki/National_school_(England_and_Wales)" title="National school (England and Wales)">National School</a> for girls was founded in part of the Bishop's Palace. A new school building opened in 1871 to house the girls' school. The two schools merged in 1941.<sup id="cite_ref-Book_7-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Book-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A new infant school opened in 1966; much was rebuilt after a fire in 1978. A primary school was built in 1972.<sup id="cite_ref-Book_7-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Book-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Buckden Church of England Primary School became an Academy in 2010 and operates independently of the local authority; 248 students were on the roll in 2014–2015.<sup id="cite_ref-Ofsted_45-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ofsted-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Ofsted" title="Ofsted">Ofsted</a> report on an inspection in 2015 rated the overall effectiveness of the school as outstanding.<sup id="cite_ref-Ofsted_45-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ofsted-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Buckden is in the secondary education catchment area of <a href="/wiki/Hinchingbrooke_School" title="Hinchingbrooke School">Hinchingbrooke School</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Places_of_worship">Places of worship</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Buckden,_Cambridgeshire&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Places of worship"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Anglican church dedicated to St Mary the Virgin is a <a href="/wiki/Grade_I" class="mw-redirect" title="Grade I">grade I</a> listed building consisting of a chancel with organ chamber and vestry, a nave, a west tower, north and south aisles and a porch. It was listed in the <a href="/wiki/Domesday_Book" title="Domesday Book">Domesday Book</a> of 1086, but nothing of that date remains. The church contains some 13th-century features, but it was much enlarged and rebuilt in the 15th. The buttresses to the north were added in the 17th century. Restoration ensued in 1840, 1860 and 1884. The west tower has an embattled parapet topped by an octagonal spire that Lewis described as "elegant".<sup id="cite_ref-Topo_41-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Topo-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There were five bells in the tower<sup id="cite_ref-BHO_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BHO-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> until 1997, when the bell frame and old bells were renewed and an extra bell installed. An extension, the Living Stones Room opened in 2011, includes a meeting room, kitchen and toilets. In 2006 Buckden and the Offords became a single benefice within the deanery of St Neots in the diocese of Ely.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A small Methodist chapel was built about 1838; a larger chapel built in 1876 remains in use.<sup id="cite_ref-Book_7-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Book-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Catholic church built by the Claretians was dedicated to St Hugh of Lincoln in 1959. It is in the Diocese of East Anglia.<sup id="cite_ref-StHugh_42-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-StHugh-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A nonconformist chapel existed between about 1840 and 1862. After renovation, it re-opened in 1905 as a joint Baptist and Congregational chapel.<sup id="cite_ref-BHO_8-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BHO-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> it remained in use for worship until 1984, when it was converted first for commercial use and in 2006 as a private residence.<sup id="cite_ref-Book_7-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Book-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notable_people">Notable people</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Buckden,_Cambridgeshire&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Notable people"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hugh_of_Lincoln" title="Hugh of Lincoln">Hugh of Lincoln</a> (c. 1135–1200), <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Lincoln" title="Bishop of Lincoln">Bishop of Lincoln</a>, builder of first wooden palace at Buckden</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Grosseteste" title="Robert Grosseteste">Robert Grosseteste</a> (c. 1175–1253), <a href="/wiki/Scholastic_philosopher" class="mw-redirect" title="Scholastic philosopher">scholastic philosopher</a>, statesman and Bishop of Lincoln, died at Buckden.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Catherine_of_Aragon" title="Catherine of Aragon">Catherine of Aragon</a> (1485–1536), divorced queen of <a href="/wiki/Henry_VIII" title="Henry VIII">Henry VIII</a>, was confined at Buckden Towers in July 1533 – May 1534.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Barlow_(bishop)" title="Thomas Barlow (bishop)">Thomas Barlow</a> (1608/9–1691), religious writer and Bishop of Lincoln, died at Buckden.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Thomas Pepys (1634–1664), a tailor and younger brother of <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Pepys" title="Samuel Pepys">Samuel Pepys</a>, sold a house in Stirtloe, part of Buckden, in 1661/62.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Reynolds_(bishop)" title="Richard Reynolds (bishop)">Richard Reynolds</a> (1674–1743), bishop of Lincoln active against the <a href="/wiki/Henry_Walpole" title="Henry Walpole">Walpole</a> ministry in the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Lords" title="House of Lords">House of Lords</a>, was buried in Buckden church.<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Mann_Langley" title="Edward Mann Langley">Edward Mann Langley</a> (1851–1933), mathematician, was born in Buckden.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Leslie_Green" title="John Leslie Green">John Leslie Green</a> (1888–1916), born in Buckden, was awarded the <a href="/wiki/Victoria_Cross" title="Victoria Cross">Victoria Cross</a>, for valour ending with his own death at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Somme" title="Battle of the Somme">Battle of the Somme</a> on 1 July 1916.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lionel_Powys-Maurice" title="Lionel Powys-Maurice">Lionel Powys-Maurice</a> (1899–1991), a county cricketer with <a href="/wiki/Northamptonshire_County_Cricket_Club" title="Northamptonshire County Cricket Club">Northants</a>, died in Buckden.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chris_Morris_(satirist)" title="Chris Morris (satirist)">Chris Morris</a> (born 1962 in Buckden), is a comedian and director known for black humour.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Public_services">Public services</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Buckden,_Cambridgeshire&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Public services"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="PieChartTemplate thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:202px"> <div class="mw-no-invert" style="background-color:white;margin:auto;position:relative;width:200px;height:200px;overflow:hidden;border-radius:100px;border:1px solid black;transform:scaleX(-1)rotate(-90deg)"> <div style="border:solid transparent;background-color:initial;position:absolute;width:100px;line-height:0;left:100px; 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top:0; border-width:0 9.4527831179282px 100px 0; border-right-color:#1F78B4"></div> <div style="position:absolute;line-height:0;border-style:solid;right:0;top:0;border-width:0 100px 100px 0;border-color:#1F78B4"></div> </div> <div class="thumbcaption"> <p>Crime reported in Buckden December 2014 to November 2015<sup id="cite_ref-Crime_Statistics_51-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Crime_Statistics-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r981673959">.mw-parser-output .legend{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .legend-color{display:inline-block;min-width:1.25em;height:1.25em;line-height:1.25;margin:1px 0;text-align:center;border:1px solid black;background-color:transparent;color:black}.mw-parser-output .legend-text{}</style><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:#1F78B4; color:;"> </span> <a href="/wiki/Anti-social_behavior" class="mw-redirect" title="Anti-social behavior">Anti-social behaviour</a> (26.5%)</div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:#33A02C; color:;"> </span> <a href="/wiki/Bicycle_theft" title="Bicycle theft">Bicycle theft</a> (1.7%)</div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:#E31A1C; color:;"> </span> Burglary (12.8%)</div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:#FF7F00; color:;"> </span> <a href="/wiki/Criminal_damage" class="mw-redirect" title="Criminal damage">Criminal damage</a> and arson (10.3%)</div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:#6A3D9A; color:;"> </span> <a href="/wiki/Drug-related_crime" title="Drug-related crime">Drugs</a> (4.3%)</div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:#B15928; color:;"> </span> Other theft (18.8%)</div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:#A6CEE3; color:;"> </span> <a href="/wiki/Public_order" class="mw-redirect" title="Public order">Public order</a> (1.7%)</div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:#B2DF8A; color:;"> </span> <a href="/wiki/Shoplifting" title="Shoplifting">Shoplifting</a> (1.7%)</div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:#FB9A99; color:;"> </span> Vehicle crime (10.3%)</div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:#FDBF6F; color:;"> </span> <a href="/wiki/Violent_crime" title="Violent crime">Violence</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sexual_offence" class="mw-redirect" title="Sexual offence">sexual offences</a> (10.3%)</div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:white; color:black;"> </span> Other (1.6%)</div> </div> </div></div> <p>Anglian Water supplies the village <a href="/wiki/Water_supply" title="Water supply">water</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sewage_collection_and_disposal" class="mw-redirect" title="Sewage collection and disposal">sewage</a> services from its Huntingdon South Public Water Supply zone (FW41). The <a href="/wiki/Water_quality" title="Water quality">water quality</a> was rated excellent in 2015. In the same report, the <a href="/wiki/Hard_water" title="Hard water">hardness</a> was reported as 301 mg/L of calcium carbonate, placing it in the very hard range. The nearest reservoir, <a href="/wiki/Grafham_Water" title="Grafham Water">Grafham Water</a>, is 1.5 miles (2.4 km) west of the village. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Distribution_network_operator" title="Distribution network operator">distribution network operator</a> for <a href="/wiki/Electricity_generation" title="Electricity generation">electricity</a> is <a href="/wiki/UK_Power_Networks" title="UK Power Networks">UK Power Networks</a>. There are three gas-fuelled power stations nearby: at Peterborough, Corby and at Little Barford near St Neots. The nearest, <a href="/wiki/Little_Barford_Power_Station" title="Little Barford Power Station">Little Barford Power Station</a>, is 6 miles (9.7 km) from Buckden; it uses <a href="/wiki/Combined_cycle" class="mw-redirect" title="Combined cycle">combined cycle</a> gas turbines (CCGT) and can generate 740 MW of electricity. There are two renewable-energy generation sites nearby. The landfill site at Station Farm on the Buckden Road uses landfill waste gas to generate a maximum of 1.9 MW of electricity. 3 miles (4.8 km) away at Cotton Farm near Graveley, onshore wind turbines generate a maximum of 20 MW of electricity.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Huntingdonshire District Council is part of the Recycling in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough (RECAP) Partnership, which was granted <a href="/wiki/Beacon_Council_(award)" title="Beacon Council (award)">Beacon status</a> for waste and recycling in 2006–2007.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2014–2015 the council was just short of a target of recycling or composting 55 per cent of all local household waste. </p><p><a href="/wiki/National_Health_Service" title="National Health Service">National Health Services</a> (NHS) for the village are administered by <a href="/wiki/NHS_East_of_England" title="NHS East of England">NHS East of England</a>. The nearest hospital is <a href="/wiki/Hinchingbrooke_Hospital" title="Hinchingbrooke Hospital">Hinchingbrooke</a>, which is 4 miles (6.4 km) from Buckden and has a range of specialities, including <a href="/wiki/Accident_and_Emergency" class="mw-redirect" title="Accident and Emergency">Accident and Emergency</a>. Further afield is <a href="/wiki/Addenbrooke%27s_Hospital" title="Addenbrooke's Hospital">Addenbrooke's Hospital</a> 16 miles (26 km) south-east and <a href="/wiki/Papworth_Hospital" class="mw-redirect" title="Papworth Hospital">Papworth Hospital</a> 4 miles (6.4 km) south-east of the village. There is a GP surgery in the village. </p><p>The Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Fire Authority is responsible for providing fire and rescue services to a region that includes Buckden. Its headquarters are in Brampton; the nearest 24-hour fire station is in Huntingdon. </p><p>Cambridgeshire Constabulary provides law enforcement in the county. The nearest police station is in Huntingdon. In the 12 months from December 2014 to November 2015, 117 <a href="/wiki/Street_crime" title="Street crime">street crimes</a> were reported within a 1-mile (1.6 km) radius of Church Street, Buckden – an average of just under 10 per month. The most frequent crime was anti-social behaviour. A Neighbourhood Watch Scheme has operated since before 1998.<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Buckden,_Cambridgeshire&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-C2011-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-C2011_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-C2011_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-C2011_1-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160305014829/https://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11121356&c=buckden&d=16&e=62&g=6406009&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1451402493062&enc=1">"Area: Buckden (Parish), Key Figures for 2011 Census"</a>. <i>Neighbourhood Statistics</i>. 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