Qualla: Buckingham https://qualla.com/buckingham en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:14 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/r/buckingham-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Buckingham https://qualla.com/buckingham Buckingham: Introduction https://qualla.com/buckingham/ Photo credit KingDaveRa at English Wikipedia, CC BY 2.5. The most famous building in the world that bears Buckingham's name is not in Buckingham. Buckingham Palace, the official London residence of the British monarch, sits in Westminster more than fifty miles away from the small Buckinghamshire market town that lent it the name. The palace was originally Buckingham House, built in 1703 for John Sheffield, the 1st Duke of Buckingham, a peerage that takes its title from this place. Even the county - Buckinghamshire - is named after a town that has not been its political capital for nearly three centuries. By the eighteenth century, Aylesbury had overtaken Buckingham as the county's administrative centre, and Buckingham settled into a quieter life as a market town tucked into a loop of the River Great Ouse, its 12,890 residents getting on with farming, education, and the weekly market that has run here for over six hundred years.

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]]> Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/r/buckingham-wp/gcpr-buckingham-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Buckingham: Bucca's Hemmed-In Land https://qualla.com/buckingham/ Photo credit Jo and Steve Turner, CC BY-SA 2.0. The name itself is Anglo-Saxon. Buckingham means "the hemmed-in land of Bucca's people" - Bucca being the leader of the first Saxons to settle the meander of the Great Ouse in the seventh century. The original village sat on what is now the Hunter Street campus of the University ...

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]]> Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/r/buckingham-wp/gcpr-buckingham-buccas-hemmed-in-land.mp3 0:06 2 full Buckingham: The Great Fire of 1725 https://qualla.com/buckingham/ Photo credit Chris Nyborg, CC BY-SA 3.0. On 15 March 1725, fire swept through the town centre. By the time it was out, 138 of Buckingham's 387 dwellings had been destroyed - more than a third of the town. Castle Street, Castle Hill, and the north side of Market Hill were gone. Collections were taken in Aylesbury and Wen...

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]]> Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/r/buckingham-wp/gcpr-buckingham-the-great-fire-of-1725.mp3 0:06 3 full Buckingham: Stowe, Just Down the Road https://qualla.com/buckingham/ Photo credit Chris Nyborg, CC BY-SA 3.0. Two miles north of Buckingham, along the A422, lies Stowe. The house is now Stowe School, one of England's grand public schools, but the gardens are open to the public under the National Trust. They were the eighteenth-century masterpiece of Capability Brown, who began his career...

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]]> Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/r/buckingham-wp/gcpr-buckingham-stowe-just-down-the-road.mp3 0:06 4 full Buckingham: Charter Markets and a Saint Buried Nowhere https://qualla.com/buckingham/ Photo credit Mr Biz, CC BY-SA 2.0. Buckingham's street market has run continuously for more than six hundred years and was formalised by the charters of Queen Mary in 1554 and Charles II in 1664. Every Tuesday and Saturday, traders set up in Market Square selling fish, vegetables, bread, household goods, and flowe...

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