BUCKLAND-ST.-MARY, a village and a parish in Chard district, Somerset. The village stands 1½ mile from the verge of the county, 4½ miles NW of Chard r. station, and 6 W by S of Ilminster; and it has a post office under Chard and a fair on the Tuesday and Wednesday after 20 Sept. The parish comprises 3,494 acres. Real property, £3,766. Pop., 715. Houses, 151. The property is much subdivided. Traces of a Roman fort bear the name of Neroche Castle; and relics of conflicts between the Saxons and the Danes have been found. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £343. Patron, F. L. Popham, Esq. The church was rebuilt in the nine years prior to 1864; cost about £20,000, all defrayed by the rector, the Rev. J. E. Lance; is in the decorated English style; consists of nave with aisles, chancel with side chapels, a south porch, and a massive western tower; and has ornature of coloured marbles, polychromy, statuary, and painted windows. Remains of an ancient stone cross are in the churchyard. There is a Baptist chapel.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))