Buckley

Buckley is a town and community in Flintshire, north-east Wales.

Buckley may also refer to:

Phrases

• "Buckley's chance", or simply "Buckley's", derived from the life of English convict William Buckley (1780–1856)
• "It Tastes Awful. And It Works.", a highly successful cough syrup marketing slogan of the W.K. Buckley Ltd. pharmaceutical company

Geographical

Australia

• Buckley River Important Bird Area, Queensland
• Buckley, Victoria
• Buckley Park College, a medium-sized, public secondary school in Essendon, Victoria

Canada

• Buckley Bay, British Columbia

• • Buckley Bay station, stop on Via Rail's Victoria – Courtenay train service

United Kingdom

• Buckley, Greater Manchester, suburban area of Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England
• Buckley Green, small village and village green near Warwickshire
• Buckley Barracks, a British Army barracks in Wiltshire, England

United States

• Buckley, Illinois
• Buckley, Michigan
• Buckley, Washington
• Buckley Air Force Base, Aurora, Colorado
• Buckley Aircraft, aircraft manufacturer based in Wichita, Kansas
• Buckley Creek, a river in Nebraska
• Buckley Island, island on the Ohio River in West Virginia

Other places

• Buckley Bay (Antarctica)
• Buckley Park, a multi-purpose stadium near Kilkenny, Ireland

People

• Buckley (surname), a surname originating from England and Ireland
  • William F. Buckley Jr. (1925–2008), American conservative author and commentator
  • James L. Buckley (born 1923), United States federal judge and US senator

Characters

• Buckley, a character on the American television series King of the Hill
• Buckley (The Royal Tenenbaums), a dog in The Royal Tenenbaums

Organizations

• The Buckley School (California), Los Angeles K-12 school
• The Buckley School (New York City), K-9 boys school
• Buckley Country Day School, Roslyn, New York N-8 school
• Buckley's, Canadian pharmaceutical corporation
• Buckley Hall (HM Prison), prison in Buckley, Rochdale, England
• Buckley Hall, historic manor of Rochdale, England
• Buckley & Nunn, former department store in Melbourne, Australia
• Buckley Broadcasting, an American broadcasting company

Ships

• USS Buckley (DE-51), a United States Navy destroyer escort in commission from 1943 to 1946
• USS Dennis J. Buckley, the name of more than one United States Navy ship

See also

• Buck (disambiguation)
• Buckley v. Valeo, US constitutional law Supreme Court case