Coordinates: 51°14′38″N 0°15′18″W / 51.2439°N 0.255°W / 51.2439; -0.255

Buckland
Buckland windmill
Buckland  Buckland shown within Surrey
Population	585 [1]
OS grid reference	TQ218508
District	Mole Valley
Shire county	Surrey
Region	South East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Betchworth
Postcode district	RH3
Dialling code	01737
Police	Surrey
Fire	Surrey
Ambulance	South East Coast
EU Parliament	South East England
UK Parliament	Mole Valley
List of places: UK • England • Surrey

Buckland is a village and civil parish in the Mole Valley district of Surrey, England. The village is situated between Dorking and Reigate. The civil parish of Buckland covers 515 hectares (2 square miles) and is bordered by the North Downs escarpment in the north. The area contains a number of clay pits.

Buckland appears in Domesday Book as Bochelant. It was owned by John of Tonbridge. Buckland had a church, water-mill and thirty-five heads of household. Of these, seventeen farmed the land owned by the feudal lord, and ten were servants of the estate.^[2]

The village church St Mary the Virgin was built in 1380.^[3] The windmill is a tourist focal point.

Local Legend

Buckland is also the location of the Shag Brook, which local legend says was the home of a monstrous horse (in some versions a gorilla), called the Buckland Shag.

This beast would drag travellers from the nearby coaching road and devour them on the Shag Stone, a large boulder in the brook with a blood red vein of iron ore running through it.

The local parson, Willoughby Bertie, had the Shag Stone removed from the brook in 1757 and it was transported and thrown from a cliff in Devon. The Buckland Shag then disappeared from local folklore.

The Legend of the Buckland Shag has recently been revived by a local morris side, The Buckland Shag Morris Men

References

1. ^ Surrey County census
2. ^ Surrey Domesday Book
3. ^ St Mary the Virgin

External links

1. http://www.bucklandshagmorrismen.com/

Neighbouring areas of Surrey

	Headley	Walton-on-the-Hill	Kingswood
	Brockham		Reigate
		Buckland
	Betchworth	Leigh	Sidlow

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