Bucknell

Bucknell is a town and common ward in south Shropshire, England. The town lies on the River Redlake, inside 660 yards of the River Teme and near the fringe of Wales and Herefordshire. It is around 6 miles east of Knighton and is set inside the Shropshire Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The name is gotten from Old English and signifies 'Bucca's slope' or 'he-goats' slope'.

The town has the "P"s distinguished by Country Life as fundamental to an effective town: a bar, a mail station, a position of love, an elementary school and open transport. The settlement of Bucknell was first made reference to in the Domesday Book, as Buckehale or Buckenhill. At the season of the Domesday overview, the Shropshire and Herefordshire limit separated the town. The Norman head honcho Roger de Montgomery held the town from the King.

He manufactured numerous châteaux including Montgomery, Shrewsbury, Ludlow, Clun, Hopton and Oswestry; at the time more than 90 percent of the lordships and houses of Shropshire were held in Chief by him. His under-inhabitants around there were Ralph de Mortimer, who held Bucknell, and William de Picot , with his central area at Clun Castle. It is one of the great place.