Bucknell is an Ancient Parish mostly in Shropshire and partly in Herefordshire.
Other places in the parish include: Buckton with Coxall, Heath and Jay.
Parish church:
Parish registers begin: 1598
Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist
Parishes adjacent to Bucknell
- Stowe
- Bedstone
- Clun with Chapel Lawn
- Hopton Castle
- Brampton Bryan
* Leintwardine - Stanage
Historical Descriptions
Bucknell
Bucknell Gregory Shropshire Gazetteer 1824
Bucknell. A parish in the Stow division of the hundred of Purslow, a chapelry in the diocese of Hereford, the deanery of Clun, and archdeaconry of Salop. This parish is partly in Wigmore hundred, county of Hereford. The entire parish contains 465 inhabitants. The Shropshire part contains 57 houses, 331 inhabitants. 9 ¼ miles south-east by south of Bishopscastle.
Source: The Shropshire Gazetteer, with an Appendix, including a Survey of the County and Valuable Miscellaneous Information, with Plates. Printed and Published by T. Gregory, Wem, 1824.
Buckton
Alternative names: Buckton with Coxall
Buckton with Coxall is a township, in the parish of Bucknell, Shropshire, in the Leominster division of the county, Wigmore hundred, Leominster and Wigmore rural district, Knighton county court district and petty sessional division.
Alternative names: Buckton with Coxall
Church: St. James (erected in 1877) inhabitants chiefly attend the churches of Bucknell and Brampton Bryan.
Gregory Shropshire Gazetteer 1824
Buckton. A township in the parish of Bucknell, and in the Stow division of the hundred of Purslow. 10 ½ miles south-east of Bishopscastle.
Source: The Shropshire Gazetteer, with an Appendix, including a Survey of the County and Valuable Miscellaneous Information, with Plates. Printed and Published by T. Gregory, Wem, 1824
Poll Books
Bucknell Shropshire Poll Book 1865
Directories
Buckton Kellys Herefordshire and Shropshire Directory 1941
Bucknell Cassey Shropshire Directory 1871
Administration
- County: Shropshire
- Civil Registration District: Knighton
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Hereford (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Hereford
- Rural Deanery: Clun
- Poor Law Union: Knighton
- Hundred: Purslow
- Province: Canterbury