Buckley is a
suburban area within the
Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale
The Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale is a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester in North West England. It is named after its largest town, Rochdale, The borough covers other outlying towns and villages with a population of 206,500 at the ...
, in
Greater Manchester
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, England.
It lies at the northern fringe of
Rochdale
Rochdale ( ) is a large town in Greater Manchester, England, at the foothills of the South Pennines in the dale on the River Roch, northwest of Oldham and northeast of Manchester. It is the administrative centre of the Metropolitan Borough ...
, along the course of Buckley Brook, "upon an eminence of ground" by the
South Pennines
The South Pennines is a region of moorland and hill country in northern England lying towards the southern end of the Pennines. In the west it includes the Rossendale Valley and the West Pennine Moors. It is bounded by the Greater Manchester ...
.
It is south-southwest of the village of
Wardle and north-northeast of Rochdale's town centre. Buckley spans a watercourse, a prison, farmland and residential properties.
Buckley emerged as a constituent community of the manor of
Hundersfield following the
Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain
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. Although the name Buckley is of
Old English
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derivation, the settlement's medieval history is tied closely to a
Norman
Norman or Normans may refer to:
Ethnic and cultural identity
* The Normans, a people partly descended from Norse Vikings who settled in the territory of Normandy in France in the 10th and 11th centuries
** People or things connected with the Norm ...
family who were granted the estate as a gift for their services given in the
Norman conquest of England; they subsequently adopted the surname '
de Buckley'. Members of the Buckleys of Buckley family appear throughout the High Middle Ages in legal charters related to Buckley, the surrounding area, and its manor house
Buckley Hall.
Throughout the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period, Buckley was the principal estate of the
township of Wardleworth. The Buckleys of Buckley Hall continued to hold positions of regional importance, such as priests, gentry and military officers, but their size and influence diminished through death and migration prompting the obsolescence of the Buckley estate. Industrialisation resulted in the neighbouring town of Rochdale to encroach on Buckley; the area was absorbed into the
Municipal Borough of Rochdale in the 1870s.
Although continuously occupied and revamped during the 18th and 19th centuries, Buckley Hall became unoccupied in the 1880s. The
Brothers of Charity
The Brothers of Charity are an international religious institute of Religious Brothers and associate members at the service of the people most in need in the field of education and health care. The institute was founded in 1807 by Peter Joseph Tr ...
, an institute of the
Catholic Church
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, successfully agitated for the purchase of Buckley Hall and its conversion into an
orphanage
An orphanage is a residential institution, total institution or group home, devoted to the care of orphans and children who, for various reasons, cannot be cared for by their biological families. The parents may be deceased, absent, or ab ...
for Catholic boys. The orphanage was operational from 1888 until 1947. The original building was demolished in the early-1990s and
HM Prison Buckley Hall
Buckley Hall Prison is a Category C male prison in the Buckley district of Rochdale in North West England. It is operated by His Majesty's Prison and Probation Service.
History
Buckley Hall takes its name from Buckley Hall, a historic house ...
was opened in its place.
History
Buckley emerged as a settlement following the
Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain
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in the
Early Middle Ages
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. The name Buckley is derived from the
Old English
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term ', which translates as "bleak hill".
[.] This Old English term became corrupted to "Blakelow",
and then into the variants of "Bucklegh", "Bulkey", "Bukklegh", and "Bucley" before settling on "Buckley".
[.]
The medieval
hamlet
''The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark'', often shortened to ''Hamlet'' (), is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601. It is Shakespeare's longest play, with 29,551 words. Set in Denmark, the play depicts ...
of Buckley lay within the
Anglo-Saxon manor of
Hundersfield, in the
parish of Rochdale. It remained in obscurity until the 11th century, when it is believed that
Normans
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loyal to
William the Conqueror
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were given the estate as a reward for their services given during the
Norman conquest of England.
It is from this exchange that the "ancient" and "local" family of Buckley — the progenitors of the
Buckley surname in
North West England — was founded.
[.] "Geoffrey de Buckley" is the earliest known member of the Buckley family, who appeared during the 12th century in charters relating to
Stanlow Abbey,
Whalley Abbey
Whalley Abbey is a former Cistercian abbey in Whalley, Lancashire, England. After the dissolution of the monasteries, the abbey was largely demolished and a country house was built on the site. In the 20th century the house was modifi ...
and land exchange in and around the hamlet of Buckley.
Although Buckley is a term of Old English derivation, the given name
Geoffrey is of
Old French
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origin, and the use of the
nobiliary particle 'de' indicates the Norman origins of the Buckley family.
[.] Geoffrey de Buckley served as the
Dean of Whalley, and his nephew, also called Geoffrey de Buckley, was killed at the
Battle of Evesham in 1265 and is commemorated in windows at
Worcester Cathedral
Worcester Cathedral is an Anglican cathedral in Worcester, in Worcestershire, England, situated on a bank overlooking the River Severn. It is the seat of the Bishop of Worcester. Its official name is the Cathedral Church of Christ and the Bles ...
and
Lichfield Cathedral
Lichfield Cathedral is an Anglican cathedral in Lichfield, Staffordshire, England, one of only three cathedrals in the United Kingdom with three spires (together with Truro Cathedral and St Mary's Cathedral in Edinburgh), and the only medie ...
.
![Map of Buckley](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fc/Map_of_Buckley.jpg)
At the centre of the Buckley estate was a
watermill
A watermill or water mill is a mill that uses hydropower. It is a structure that uses a water wheel or water turbine to drive a mechanical process such as milling (grinding), rolling, or hammering. Such processes are needed in the production of ...
used for grinding grain, which existed at least as early as 1335, and
Buckley Hall, which first appears in written records in a description dated 1626.
Buckley Hall was noted as a "faire mansion house",
and was owned by a family or families surnamed Buckley, after the locality.
The Buckleys of Buckley used Buckley Hall as a
chapel
A chapel is a Christian place of prayer and worship that is usually relatively small. The term has several meanings. Firstly, smaller spaces inside a church that have their own altar are often called chapels; the Lady chapel is a common ty ...
and residence and continued to have influence over local and regional affairs as
priest
A priest is a religious leader authorized to perform the sacred rituals of a religion, especially as a mediatory agent between humans and one or more deities. They also have the authority or power to administer religious rites; in partic ...
s,
yeomen
Yeoman is a noun originally referring either to one who owns and cultivates land or to the middle ranks of servants in an English royal or noble household. The term was first documented in mid-14th-century England. The 14th century also witn ...
,
esquires and other
gentry
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Word similar to gentle imple and decentfamilies
''Gentry'', in its widest c ...
into the
Early Modern Period; Geoffrey Buckley of Buckley was the Rector of
St Alban's Church in London during the 1470s, and John Buckley of Buckley, son of Abel, was a
Lieutenant Colonel with the
Roundhead
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s at the
Siege of Lathom House
The siege of Lathom House was a military confrontation between a Parliamentarian army and a Royalist stronghold in Lathom near Ormskirk in Lancashire, during the First English Civil War. The first siege lasted from late February to late Ma ...
during the
English Civil War
The English Civil War (1642–1651) was a series of civil wars and political machinations between Parliamentarians (" Roundheads") and Royalists led by Charles I ("Cavaliers"), mainly over the manner of England's governance and issues of re ...
.
[.] When the manor of Hundersfield was abolished and its territory subdivided amongst new
townships
A township is a kind of human settlement or administrative subdivision, with its meaning varying in different countries.
Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, that tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, C ...
, Buckley Hall and its surrounding area fell within the bounds of
Wardleworth.
Buckley appears to have been the "principal estate" of Wardleworth and encompassed land in the outlying areas of Foxholes and Fieldhouse.
The main line of the Buckley family continued to own Buckley Hall and its estates,
[.] while other members founded new families in
Saddleworth
Saddleworth is a civil parish of the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham in Greater Manchester, England. It comprises several villages and hamlets as well as suburbs of Oldham on the west side of the Pennine hills.
Areas include Austerlands, Del ...
, and
Shaw and Crompton
Shaw and Crompton is a civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England, which contains the town of Shaw and lies on the River Beal at the foothills of the South Pennines. It is located north of Oldham, south ...
. The lineal descendants of the Buckleys of Buckley gradually diminished in number and influence through death and migration; the last member of the main branch of the Buckleys of Buckley was a Captain William Buckley.
In 1722, Captain Buckley had a lethal dispute with Major Samuel Crooke, the
High Sheriff of Lancashire
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, regarding a
right of way
Right of way is the legal right, established by grant from a landowner or long usage (i.e. by prescription), to pass along a specific route through property belonging to another.
A similar ''right of access'' also exists on land held by a gov ...
in
Higher Walton, Lancashire
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. Buckley and Cooke entered a duel at Rochdale in which Cooke was killed. Buckley was tried at the
assizes in
Lancaster and found guilty of manslaughter, but received "only a light sentence". He died in 1730.
The demise of the Buckleys of Buckley, combined with the urbanisation of the expanding
market town
A market town is a settlement most common in Europe that obtained by custom or royal charter, in the Middle Ages, a market right, which allowed it to host a regular market; this distinguished it from a village or city. In Britain, small rural ...
of
Rochdale
Rochdale ( ) is a large town in Greater Manchester, England, at the foothills of the South Pennines in the dale on the River Roch, northwest of Oldham and northeast of Manchester. It is the administrative centre of the Metropolitan Borough ...
, brought about the gradual obsolescence of the Buckley estate. Buckley Hall passed from Captain William Buckley to his nephew Thomas Foster (who assumed the surname of Buckley), and his son, Edward Buckley, who in 1786 sold the hall and estate to Robert Entwisle.
[ Although by 1626 a "considerable part of the town of Rochdale was built on the southern side of Wardleworth", the industrialisation of Rochdale advanced its encroachment upon the bounds of Buckley. In 1825 part of Wardleworth was included in the area of the commissioners for the improvement of the town of Rochdale,] and an act of parliament in 1839 allowed Rochdale's Water Works Company to construct a reservoir in Buckley to supply water to Rochdale. Buckley Wood Reservoir was completed in December 1841 and held of water. By 1851 Rochdale had expanded well into the bounds of Wardleworth, and in 1872 the remaining area of Wardleworth was subsumed into the Municipal Borough of Rochdale, effectively abolishing Wardleworth and bringing Buckley entirely into the bounds of Rochdale.
Although the Buckley family was said to be one of the founders of the cotton trade in the area, industrial scale textile processing was introduced to Buckley with the construction of Buckley Mills. Buckley became "a Victorian ensemble of a mill, workers' housing" and Buckley Hall as "the mill owners house", which in 1860 fell to the Schofields, a family of merchants and traders. Buckley Mills were visited by Henry Pelham-Clinton, 6th Duke of Newcastle
Henry Pelham Alexander Pelham-Clinton, 6th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne (25 January 1834 – 22 February 1879) was an English nobleman, styled Lord Clinton until 1851 and Earl of Lincoln until he inherited the dukedom in 1864.
Pelham-Clinton was ...
in September 1873. Buckley Hall was demolished in the 1860s by the Schofields and rebuilt "to the highest standards of comfort and opulence for the time ... four storeys high of red brick with yellow brick arches in an Italianate style with an Elizabethan bow". However, in 1882 Buckley Hall became unoccupied as a result of William Schofield's death, and stayed unoccupied until brought to the attention of Herbert Vaughan
Herbert Alfred Henry Vaughan, MHM (15 April 1832 – 19 June 1903) was an English prelate of the Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Westminster from 1892 until his death in 1903, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1893. He was th ...
and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Salford
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Salford is centred on the City of Salford in Greater Manchester, England.
The diocese was founded in 1852 as one of the first post-Reformation Catholic dioceses in Great Britain. Since 1911 it has formed part of th ...
in 1887.[.] Buckley Hall was found to be suitable for conversion into an orphanage and Poor Law School operated by the Brothers of Charity
The Brothers of Charity are an international religious institute of Religious Brothers and associate members at the service of the people most in need in the field of education and health care. The institute was founded in 1807 by Peter Joseph Tr ...
, a Catholic institute from Ghent
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in Belgium. Buckley Hall Orphanage officially opened on 19 March 1888 with 28 Catholic boys in residence. Construction of Eclipse Mill at Buckley began in 1899.
Geography
Buckley lies along the northern edge of both Rochdale
Rochdale ( ) is a large town in Greater Manchester, England, at the foothills of the South Pennines in the dale on the River Roch, northwest of Oldham and northeast of Manchester. It is the administrative centre of the Metropolitan Borough ...
, and the Greater Manchester Urban Area
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, "upon an eminence of ground" at the foothills of the South Pennines
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. It is located at (53.6312°, -2.1421°), which is north-northeast of Manchester city centre
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and north-northwest of central London. The A58 road runs southeast-to-northwest along the southern edge of Buckley. The Buckley Brook runs southerly along Buckley's eastern fringe until it discharges into Hey Brook, a tributary of the River Roch
The River Roch is a river in Greater Manchester in North West England, a tributary of the River Irwell.
Course
Rising on Chelburn Moor (south of Todmorden in the Pennines), the river flows south through Littleborough towards Rochdale where ...
. Buckley Brook is so named because it passes through Buckley.
There is a mixture of suburbs, semi-rural and rural locations in Buckley—which has no formal boundary—and is fringed by Great Howarth (to the northeast), Low Hill and Smallbridge (to the east), Howarth Cross (to the southeast), Fieldhouse and Wardleworth (to the south), Cronkeyshaw and Foxholes (to the southwest), Nook Farm (to the west), Healey (to the north east), and Birchin Head and rural land (to the north). Foxholes and Fieldhouse have been documented as being a part of Buckley.
Governance
In the Early Middle Ages, Buckley was governed as a part of the Anglo-Saxon manor of Hundersfield in the Rochdale ecclesiastical parish and hundred of Salford. Following the Norman conquest of England, Buckley fell into Norman
Norman or Normans may refer to:
Ethnic and cultural identity
* The Normans, a people partly descended from Norse Vikings who settled in the territory of Normandy in France in the 10th and 11th centuries
** People or things connected with the Norm ...
ownership, and was governed as a private estate consisting of "messuage
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and lands" held by the 'de Buckley' family.[.] In 1576, Buckley was described as a " manor", still held by the Buckleys of Buckley, albeit under the overlordship of Sir John Byron, Jr.[ When Hundersfield was subdivided into ]townships
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Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, that tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, C ...
, Buckley became part of Wardleworth township in the county
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of Lancashire
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The non-metropolitan county of Lancash ...
; east of watercourse of Buckley Brook was Wardleworth's boundary with Wuerdle and Wardle.
In 1825, well after the demise of the Buckleys of Buckley, part of Wardleworth was included in the area of the police commissioners who were tasked with the improvement of the encroaching market town
A market town is a settlement most common in Europe that obtained by custom or royal charter, in the Middle Ages, a market right, which allowed it to host a regular market; this distinguished it from a village or city. In Britain, small rural ...
of Rochdale
Rochdale ( ) is a large town in Greater Manchester, England, at the foothills of the South Pennines in the dale on the River Roch, northwest of Oldham and northeast of Manchester. It is the administrative centre of the Metropolitan Borough ...
. In 1872 the remaining area of Wardleworth became part of the Municipal Borough of Rochdale; Buckley became Rochdale's northeastern boundary with the Wardle Urban District in 1894. Local governance continued on this basis until after the Local Government Act 1972, when in 1974, the then County Borough of Rochdale was abolished and replaced by the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale
The Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale is a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester in North West England. It is named after its largest town, Rochdale, The borough covers other outlying towns and villages with a population of 206,500 at the ...
, a local government district of Greater Manchester
Greater Manchester is a metropolitan county and combined authority area in North West England, with a population of 2.8 million; comprising ten metropolitan boroughs: Manchester, Salford, Bolton, Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport, Tam ...
.
Buckley falls within the Rochdale county constituency, which is represented by Simon Danczuk
Simon Christopher Danczuk (; born 24 October 1966) is a British author and former Member of Parliament (MP) who represented the constituency of Rochdale between 2010 and 2017. He has co-written two books, ''Smile for the Camera: The Double Life ...
MP, a member of the Labour Party.
Landmarks
Buckley Hall and has been the only significant landmark in Buckley. It first makes an appearance in record in a written description dated 1626, but was at that time noted as being an ancient hall. It held a collection of vertu
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Concept
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until it was dispersed in 1884. The Brothers of Charity
The Brothers of Charity are an international religious institute of Religious Brothers and associate members at the service of the people most in need in the field of education and health care. The institute was founded in 1807 by Peter Joseph Tr ...
, an institute of the Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.3 billion baptized Catholics worldwide . It is among the world's oldest and largest international institutions, and has played a ...
, successfully agitated for the purchase of Buckley Hall and its conversion into an orphanage
An orphanage is a residential institution, total institution or group home, devoted to the care of orphans and children who, for various reasons, cannot be cared for by their biological families. The parents may be deceased, absent, or ab ...
for Catholic boys. The orphanage was operational from 1888, until 1947.
As a means to replace "crumbling Victorian prisons", and to cope with an increasingly large prison population of England and Wales
The United Kingdom has three distinct legal systems with a separate prison system in each: one for both England and Wales, one for Scotland, and one for Northern Ireland.
Numbers of prisoners
The total UK prison population was 83,618 (0.088% of th ...
, the government of the United Kingdom
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turned to the private sector
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Employment
The ...
and gave contracts to companies for the operation of private prisons. HM Prison Buckley Hall
Buckley Hall Prison is a Category C male prison in the Buckley district of Rochdale in North West England. It is operated by His Majesty's Prison and Probation Service.
History
Buckley Hall takes its name from Buckley Hall, a historic house ...
was the fourth privately managed prison in the United Kingdom,[ and the first privatised Category C establishment holding medium security prisoners.][ Between 1966 and 1989 it operated as a senior detention centre. It reopened in 1994 before a demolition of the Buckley Hall mansion and rebuilding programme took place. The present prison buildings opened in 1995.] In 2002, HMP Buckley Hall reopened as a prison for female offenders; the first prisoners arrived in April that year.[ As a result of increases in the size of Britain's male prison population, HMP Buckley Hall was reverted to a male Category C prison in September 2005 with prisoners arriving in December 2005.] In 2009, HMP Buckley Hall had a maximum prisoner capacity of 381.[
]
Public services
Buckley is policed by the Greater Manchester Police
Greater Manchester Police (GMP) is the territorial police force responsible for law enforcement within the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester in North West England.
, Greater Manchester Police employed 6,866 police officers, 3,524 memb ...
force, and falls within the Healey community area of Rochdale North. Rochdale Police Station is the closest police station.[ Statutory emergency fire and rescue service is provided by the ]Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service
Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service (GMFRS) is the statutory emergency fire and rescue service for the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester, England. It is part of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority.
GMFRS covers an area of ...
,
from fire stations at Rochdale and Littleborough.
Hospital services are provided by The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust who provide an accident and emergency
An emergency department (ED), also known as an accident and emergency department (A&E), emergency room (ER), emergency ward (EW) or casualty department, is a medical treatment facility specializing in emergency medicine, the acute care of pa ...
(CLOSING in April 2011) service at Rochdale Infirmary and Mental Health Services are provided by Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust at Birch Hill Hospital.
Community health services, including GPs, district and community nurses, dentists and pharmacists, are co-ordinated by NHS Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale. Waste management is co-ordinated by the Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority
The Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority (GMWDA) was England’s largest waste disposal authority, responsible for the management and disposal of municipal waste from Greater Manchester. It dealt with 1.1 million tonnes of waste produced ...
, which is a statutory waste disposal authority.
Buckley's Distribution Network Operator for electricity is Electricity North West Ltd.
United Utilities manages Buckley's drinking and waste water.
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