Buckland, Surrey
Coordinates: 51°14′38″N 0°15′18″W / 51.2439°N 0.255°W
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 Buckland windmill |
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| Population | 585 [1] |
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| OS grid reference | TQ218508 |
| District | Mole Valley |
| Shire county | Surrey |
| Region | South East |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Betchworth |
| Postcode district | RH3 |
| Dialling code | 01737 |
| Police | Surrey |
| Fire | Surrey |
| Ambulance | South East Coast |
| EU Parliament | South East England |
| UK Parliament | Mole Valley |
| List of places: UK • England • Surrey | |
Buckland is a village and civil parish in the Mole Valley district of Surrey, England. The village is situated between Dorking and Reigate. The civil parish of Buckland covers 515 hectares (2 square miles) and is bordered by the North Downs escarpment in the north. The area contains a number of clay pits.
Buckland appears in Domesday Book as Bochelant. It was owned by John of Tonbridge. Buckland had a church, water-mill and thirty-five heads of household. Of these, seventeen farmed the land owned by the feudal lord, and ten were servants of the estate.[2]
The village church St Mary the Virgin was built in 1380.[3] The windmill is a tourist focal point.
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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.
The local parson, Willoughby Bertie, had the Shag Stone removed from the brook in 1757 and it was transported 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.
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