Buckden Pike From Kidstones Scar
Buckden may refer to: *Buckden, Cambridgeshire *Buckden, North Yorkshire Buckden is a village and civil parish in the Craven district of North Yorkshire, England. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, Buckden is situated in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, and on the east bank of the River Wharfe in ...

Buckden, Cambridgeshire
Buckden is a village and civil parish north of St Neots and south-west of Huntingdon, England. It includes the hamlets of Stirtloe and Hardwick. It lies in Huntingdonshire, a non-metropolitan district of Cambridgeshire and a historic counties of England, historic county, close to three transport routes of past and present: the Great Ouse, River Great Ouse, along its eastern boundary, the Great North Road (Great Britain), Great North Road that once crossed the village, but now bypasses it to the west, and the East Coast Mainline along the eastern side of the Great Ouse valley in the neighbouring parish of The Offords. Features In the centre of the village is Buckden Towers, once Buckden Palace, a residence of the bishops of Lincoln from the 12th to early 19th centuries. Several kings of England stayed there and Catherine of Aragon was held there in 1533 before being moved to Kimbolton Castle in 1534. Buckden prospered in the 18th and early 19th centuries from being just over n ...
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