Description
Buckland, a parish in Surrey, on the S.E.R., 1 mile ESE of Betchworth station, and 2 miles W of Reigate. It has a post and money order office under Betchworth (R.S.O.), which is the telegraph office. Acreage, 1876; population of the civil parish, 497; of the ecclesiastical, 473. Buckland House is a chief residence. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester; net value, £385 with residence. Patron, All Souls College, Oxford. The church was rebuilt in 1860. Spencer, the biographer of Archbishop Chicheley, was rector.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
