BUCKNILL, a parish partly in the hundred of
WIGMORE, county of HEREFORD, but chiefly in the
hundred of PURSLOW, county of SALOP, 3 miles (E.
N. £.) from Knighton, containing, with the township
of Buxton with Coxall, 465 inhabitants. The living
is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Salop, and diocese
of Hereford, rated in the king's books at £5.6.8.,
endowed with £400 private benefaction, and in the
patronage of the Master and Wardens of the Grocers'
Company. The church is dedicated to St. Mary.
Bucknill is in the honour of Tutbury, duchy of Lancaster,
and within the jurisdiction of a court of pleas
held at Tutbury every third Tuesday, for the recovery
of debts under 40s.