Buckden Village Website
List of community services and facilities such as the Community Centre, Post Office, Surgery, etc.
Find out what's on in Buckden and nearby!
The food and drink page.
Free adverts for residents and local businesses.
History of village, places of interest and a 'Did You Know' section.
Weather, news, sport and other useful information on the web.
Some of the many letters and e-mails received.

Early sketch of Buckden Village.
Location and street map of Buckden.
Local schools
List of shops, hotels, restaurants and other businesses.
List of societies, clubs and groups.
List of sporting activities.
Images of Buckden Village.
Links to other sites on the Internet.

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Welcome to the Buckden Village Website. For those of you who live in and around the village we hope that you find something of interest that catches your eye. This website has been designed with you in mind and we are looking for your thoughts and ideas on how we can improve it. (Why not send us an e-mail?)

Virtual Tour

For those of you who are visiting us from the World Wide Web please accept our greetings and enjoy your stay. The village of Buckden has a thriving community of nearly three thousand people and is situated approximately 50 miles (80 km) north of London between the market towns of Huntingdon and St. Neots. Its most famous landmark, Buckden Towers, is documented in the Domesday Book and lists as visitors Henry III, Katherine of Aragon, Henry VIII and Samuel Pepys. For more information please visit our history page.

To move around the site, simply click on the navigation buttons at the top of this page, alternatively, if you know which page you wish to access, use the 'Fast Select Menu' below the sketch of Buckden. If you are new to the Internet (or to this site) then you may first find it helpful to click on the green 'Help' button at the foot of this screen.

February 2010:

Dates for your diary in the coming months

APRIL - Annual Village Auction:

The annual auction in aid of the upkeep of St Mary's Church is to be held at the Millennium Community Centre on Saturday 10th April. (More details closer to the date.)

MAY/JUNE - The Great North Wales Getaway:

A 4-night break to Bodelwyddan Castle Hotel in North Wales is being organised from Monday 31st May to Friday 4th June. The hotel offers a range of activities for adults including archery, bowls, tennis and rifle shooting. Click here here for more information on the trip.

JUNE - Huntingdon Heritage Festival:

Huntingdon Town Council will be holding a Heritage Festival on 26th & 27th June this year on the Riverside Meadows to celebrate the town's historic heritage.

In 2010 the Council is aiming to repeat the success of the Huntingdon 800 Festival in 2005, which celebrated the awarding of the Town's Charter in 1205 and which attracted over 20,000 visitors. Click here here for more information on the festival.

Free Advertising on the Buckden Village Website:

Whether you are a local business, society or individual, there is no charge to advertise with the Buckden Village Free Ads Service. This is a complimentary facility that is available for all in the community to use!

An advert on the Free Ads database consists of a text entry of up to 200 characters plus a contact name and telephone number. (If you are a business you can also have a separate link to your own website or webpage for a modest monthly charge.)

Click the 'Free Adverts' button for more information.



If you us send an e-mail please note that, because of our other work commitments, it may take us several days to respond. However, we do aim to reply to every e-mail we receive. So, if you haven't heard from us in a week or so, please resend your e-mail. Your original (or our reply) may have got lost in the World Wide Web!

 

Dave, Martin, Jeanette and Chris



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Since it was started in late 1999, the Buckden Village website has been mentioned both on local radio and in the national press:

BBC Radio Cambridgeshire: "...it's one of the best (websites) I've seen and I say that without any hesitation..." - Gerald Main, Senior Broadcast Journalist for BBC Radio Cambridgeshire during a live radio broadcast from the Buckden Millennium Community Centre.

The Sunday Times: 'Six reasons to join the online community'. Under the caption of 'Unite the Neighbours', the site was presented as an example of a 'well-designed' community website in The Sunday Times' Doors Internet supplement. (February 4, 2001)

The Sunday Times: 'ISP and a country churchyard: the online village of Buckden'. This is the caption to a photograph of Buckden that appeared in an edition of The Sunday Times' Culture magazine. The accompanying article, entitled 'A local site for local people', described how the Internet is helping 'those who live in traditional communities to interact in new ways'. (July 9, 2000)


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