Bucklow Hill is a village in

Cheshire Cheshire ( ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in North West England. It is bordered by Merseyside to the north-west, Greater Manchester to the north-east, Derbyshire to the east, Staffordshire to the south-east, and Shrop ...

, England whose name originates from a slight rise in the road. It is part of the civil parish of

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and is located at the junction of the A5034 road and the B5569 road.

History

The ''

Bucklow Hundred The hundred of Bucklow was an ancient division of the historic county of Cheshire, in northern England. It was known to have been in existence at least as early as 1260, and it was formed from the earlier Domesday hundreds of Bochelau and Tun ...

'' of Cheshire derives its name from this place. Soldiers were mustered here in 1549 to reinforce the English troops in Scotland during the

Rough Wooing The Rough Wooing (; December 1543 – March 1551), also known as the Eight Years' War, was part of the Anglo-Scottish Wars of the 16th century. Following the English Reformation, the break with the Catholic Church, England attacked Scotland ...

. A nonconformist chapel was founded at Bucklow Hill in the 19th century.

References

Villages in Cheshire {{Cheshire-geo-stub