| Country: | England |
| Coordinates: | 52.599°N 1.477°W |
| Official Name: | Buckenham |
| Region: | East of England |
| Postcode District: | NR12 |
| Postcode Area: | NR |
| Post Town: | NORWICH |
| Dial Code: | 01603 |
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| Static Image: | The church of St Nicholas, Buckenham - geograph.org.uk - 485330.jpg |
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| Static Image Caption: | St Nicholas' Church, Buckenham |
Buckenham is a small village and former civil parish, now in the civil parish of Strumpshaw in the English county of Norfolk.
Buckenham is located 3.8miles south-west of Acle and 7.9miles east of Norwich.
Buckenham's name is of Anglo-Saxon origin and derives from the Old English for Bucca's homestead'.[1]
In the Domesday Book, Buckenham is recorded as a settlement of 195 households in the hundred of Blofield. In 1086, the village was part of the estates of King William I, St. Edmund's Abbey and William d'Ecouis.[2]
The Old Rectory was built in 1827 for the Reverend T. W. Beauchamp and is Grade II listed[3] with accompanying listed Stable & Coach house[4] and a Seventeenth Century boundary wall.[5]
On 1 April 1935, the civil parish was abolished and merged with Strumpshaw.[6]
In 1931, the parish had a population of 128.[7] This was the last time separate population statistics were collected for Buckenham as in 1936, the village was subsumed into Strumpshaw Civil Parish.
The River Yare runs through the parish.
The nearby Buckenham Marshes RSPB reserve is a haven for birdwatching, including taiga bean geese, lapwings and wigeons.[8]
Buckenham Railway Station serves the village, outlying communities and the RSPB reserve. It is a stop on the Wherry Lines, with limited services to, and .[9]
Buckenham's parish church is dedicated to Saint Nicholas and dates from the Thirteenth Century. St. Nicholas' is located on Church Road and has been Grade I listed since 1962.[10] The church's doorway dates to the Twelfth Century whilst the church fell into disuse and disrepair in the 1970s and is now in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. The church boasts a carved Medieval font and originally had stained-glass windows designed by Yarrington which were destroyed by vandals in the late-Twentieth century. The church also contains memorials to members of the Beauchamp family and a Reverend George Elwin.[11]
Buckenham's war memorial is a stone cross of sacrifice in St. Nicholas' Churchyard which has been Grade II listed since 2017.[12] The memorial lists the following names for the First World War:[13]
| Capt. | Victor W. Harrison | Royal Flying Corps | 1 Sep. 1918 | St. Nicholas' Churchyard, Buckenham | |
| 2Lt. | Cyril H. Harrison | 10th Bn., South Lancashire Regiment | 6 Sep. 1917 | Tyne Cot | |
| Pte. | Ernest A. Curtis | 19th Bn., Lancashire Fusiliers | 24 Jul. 1918 | New Cemetery, Vlamertinge | |
| Pte. | Jonathan Balls | Manchester Regiment | 2 Nov. 1917 | St. Nicholas' Churchyard, Buckenham | |
| Pte. | Herbert H. Curtis | 1st Bn., Norfolk Regiment | 23 Apr. 1917 | Arras Memorial |
| AS | Ronald G. Tidman | HMS Palomares | 9 Nov. 1942 | Chatham Naval Memorial |