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Long Buckby is a large village and civil parish in West Northamptonshire, England. In the 2021 census the parish of Long Buckby, which includes the hamlet of Long Buckby Wharf, was recorded as having a population of 4,511. Map. Directions.
Long Buckby Wharf is a small village located in the county of Northamptonshire, England. The village is situated on the Grand Union Canal, which was once a major transportation route for goods and people.
Long Buckby is a hill top village, located around 4.5 miles (7.2 km) north-east of the town of Daventry, and roughly midway between Northampton and Rugby, with each being around 9 miles (14 km) to the south-east and north-west respectively.
A number of entrepreneurs tried their luck here and for 150 years Long Buckby was to be an important footwear manufacturing village. It also became a busy canal wharf after the Grand Junction Canal and the Leicester arm were opened during the first 15 years of the 19th century. The Radical Village.
Location. The village is in Northamptonshire midway between Northampton and Rugby and only two miles from Watford Gap. It is a large parish of about 5,000 people which includes two smaller settlements of Murcott and Buckby Wharf.
This one place study is to research the people and events that shaped the small settlement of Long Buckby Wharf. The parish town of Long Buckby is well researched and has a very long history going back to the Domesday Book but the Wharf is a bit more of a mystery.
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Sep 4, 2020 · This one place study aims to research the people and events that shaped the small settlement of Long Buckby Wharf which lies in a rural area two miles west of the parish town of Long Buckby and around three miles east of Daventry.
