Buckingham
Buckingham is a small historic market town in South East England. It is in the northern half of Buckinghamshire close to the borders of Northamptonshire and Oxfordshire.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 12,900 residents
- Description: town in Buckinghamshire, England
- Also known as: “Buckingham, Buckinghamshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Buckingham Old Gaol and Buckingham Chantry Chapel.
Buckingham Old Gaol
Museum
Photo: Cnyborg, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Buckingham Old Gaol, sometimes known as Lord Cobham’s Castle, is a historic building in Buckingham, the former county town of Buckinghamshire, England.
Buckingham Chantry Chapel
Historic building
Photo: Jo Turner, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Buckingham Chantry Chapel is a 15th-century chapel and a National Trust property in Buckingham, Buckinghamshire, England. The chapel is the oldest building in Buckingham and is noted in particular for its Norman doorway.
St Peter and St Paul, Buckingham
Church
Photo: Cnyborg, CC BY-SA 3.0.
St. Peter and St. Paul, known commonly as Buckingham Parish Church, is the Anglican parish church in Buckingham, Buckinghamshire, England. The current rector is Revd Will Pearson-Gee who leads a range of services; traditional and modern in style, most of which are on Sunday.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gawcott and Radclive.
Gawcott
Village
Photo: Jim Osley, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Gawcott is a village about 1.5 miles southwest of Buckingham in the Buckinghamshire district in the ceremonial county of Buckinghamshire, England. The village is in the civil parish of Gawcott with Lenborough.
Radclive
Hamlet
Photo: Rob Farrow, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Radclive is a village on the River Great Ouse just over 1 mile west of Buckingham in Buckinghamshire, England. It is in the civil parish of Radclive-cum-Chackmore in the unitary authority district of Buckinghamshire.
Chackmore
Hamlet
Photo: Allan Friswell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Chackmore is a hamlet in the parish of Radclive-cum-Chackmore, in north Buckinghamshire, England. The hamlet is approached using the avenue that links Buckingham with Stowe Park.
Buckingham
- Categories: civil parish, county town, market town, and locality
- Location: Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.9999° or 51° 59′ 60″ northLongitude
-0.9877° or 0° 59′ 16″ westPopulation
12,900Elevation
292 feet (89 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB BUKOpen location code
9C3XX2X6+XWOpenStreetMap ID
node 12860528OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Buckingham” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “باكنغهام”
- Armenian: “Բաքինգհեմ”
- Basque: “Buckingham”
- Bavarian: “Buckingham”
- Belarusian: “Бакінгэм”
- Bengali: “বাকিংহ্যাম”
- Catalan: “Buckingham”
- Cebuano: “Buckingham”
- Chinese: “Buckingham”
- Chinese: “白金汉”
- Chinese: “白金漢”
- Czech: “Buckingham”
- Danish: “Buckingham”
- Dutch: “Buckingham”
- French: “Buckingham”
- Galician: “Buckingham”
- German: “Buckingham”
- Greek: “Μπάκιγχαμ”
- Gujarati: “બકિંગહામ”
- Hebrew: “בקינגהאם”
- Irish: “Buckingham”
- Italian: “Buckingham”
- Japanese: “バッキンガム”
- Kannada: “ಬಕಿಂಗ್ಹ್ಯಾಮ್”
- Korean: “버킹엄”
- Ladin: “Buckingham”
- Latin: “Buckinghamia”
- Lithuanian: “Bakingemas”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Buckingham (Buckinghamshire)”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Buckingham”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Buckingham”
- Norwegian: “Buckingham”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Buccingaham”
- Ossetian: “Бакингем”
- Persian: “باکینگهام”
- Polish: “Buckingham”
- Portuguese: “Buckingham”
- Romanian: “Buckingham”
- Russian: “Бакингем”
- Russian: “Букингем”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Buckingham, Buckinghamshire”
- Silesian: “Buckingham”
- Slovak: “Buckingham”
- Slovenian: “Buckingham”
- South Azerbaijani: “باکینقهام”
- Spanish: “Buckingham”
- Swedish: “Buckingham”
- Tamil: “வ்யபெர்டோன்”
- Telugu: “బకింగ్హామ్”
- Turkish: “Buckingham”
- Ukrainian: “Букінгем”
- Urdu: “بکنگھم”
- Uzbek: “Bakingem”
- Vietnamese: “Buckingham”
- Volapük: “Buckingham”
- Welsh: “Buckingham”
- “Buckingham”
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