Bucklow Hill is a village in
Cheshire
Cheshire ( ) is a ceremonial and historic county in North West England, bordered by Wales to the west, Merseyside and Greater Manchester to the north, Derbyshire to the east, and Staffordshire and Shropshire to the south. Cheshire's county t ...
, England whose name originates from a slight rise in the road.
It is part of the civil parish of
Mere
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Places
* Mere, Belgium, a village in East Flanders
* Mere, Cheshire, England
* Mere, Wiltshire, England
People
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and is located at the junction of the
A5034 road and the
B5569 road.
History
The ''
Bucklow Hundred
The hundred of Bucklow was an ancient division of the historic county of Cheshire, in northern England. It was known to have been in existence at least as early as 1260, and it was formed from the earlier Domesday hundreds of Bochelau and Tune ...
'' of Cheshire derives its name from this place.
Soldiers were mustered here in 1549 to reinforce the English troops in Scotland during the
Rough Wooing
The Rough Wooing (December 1543 – March 1551), also known as the Eight Years' War, was part of the Anglo-Scottish Wars of the 16th century. Following its break with the Roman Catholic Church, England attacked Scotland, partly to break the ...
.
A
nonconformist
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* Insubordination, the act of willfully disobeying an order of one's superior
*Dissent, a sentiment or philosophy of non-agreement or opposition to a prevailing idea or entity
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chapel was founded at Bucklow Hill in the 19th century.
References
Villages in Cheshire
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