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Buckinghamshire was first designated as a shire in the ninth century after the departure of the Danes. The name is thought by some to be derived from the Saxon tribe of the Bucci who had settled in the locality. Others believe that it takes its origin from the Saxon word ‘boc’ meaning ‘beech’, after the beech woods that proliferated on the slopes of the Chilterns and are even now one of the county’s most attractive features.
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Bax, A., Fairfield, S. (1978). Buckinghamshire. In: The Macmillan Guide to the United Kingdom 1978–79. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-81511-1_4
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