Buckland, Portsmouth

Buckland is a residential area of the city of Portsmouth in the English county of Hampshire.

Buckland, then known as Bocheland, was one of the three settlements on Portsea Island mentioned in the Domesday Book. The Manor of Bocheland was purchased by Jean de Gisors. De Gisors, a Norman lord who then founded Portsmouth on land at the southern end of the manor, in 1180. The area was extensively bombed during the Second World War. Due to this, and the slum nature of much of what housing was left, large parts were demolished and replaced with social housing built in the 1950s and '60s. Buckland has their own language barrier of rhyme and slang just like London back in the early 60s Charles Dickens was born in Buckland in 1812. His father moved to Portsmouth to work at the Naval Base. He bought a terraced house in an area close to the base then called Newtown.The house of his birth is now a museum. It stands in Old Commercial Road which is to this day a very prestigious street containing many listed Georgian and Victorian terraced houses and town houses.

There is no official boundary of Buckland, but the locals usually define it as the A2047 to the north, Kingston Road to the east, Lake Road to the south and Mile End Road to the west. Copperfield and Pickwick houses are another twin set of tower blocks which are 11 stories high. Mickawber house is a mid rise block. Buckland is quite deprived and has a very high population density.

Flying Bull Primary and Nursery School serves the Buckland area.