Buckden, Kent
Historical Description
Buckden, a township and a village in Arncliffe parish, W.R. Yorkshire, on the river Wharfe, 11½ miles NE of Settle. The township includes the hamlets of Craye, Deepdale, Yokenthwaite, Beckermonds, and Oughtershaw, and has a post office under Skipton; money order office, Kettlewell; telegraph office, Grassington. The area of the township, which consists chiefly of moorland, is 16,076 acres; population, 239. Cattle and sheep fairs are held on 13 Sept. and 12 Oct. respectively. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Kent newspapers online:
- Kent & Sussex Courier
- Whitstable Times and Herne Bay Herald
- Dover Express
- Kentish Gazette
- Folkestone, Hythe, Sandgate & Cheriton Herald
- Kentish Chronicle
- Maidstone Telegraph
Visitations Heraldic
The Visitation of Kent, 1619 is available on the Heraldry page, as is also The Visitation of Kent, 1663-68.