Editing Long Buckby (section)

== History ==
The origin of the name of the village is uncertain. 'Bukki's farm/settlement' or 'Bucca's farm/settlement'. Alternatively, 'billy-[[goat]] farm/settlement'.<ref>{{cite web|author=University of Nottingham - Institute of Name Studies School of English |url=http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Northamptonshire/Long%20Buckby |title=Key to English Place-names |publisher=Kepn.nottingham.ac.uk |date= |accessdate=2022-08-01}}</ref>

Long Buckby has a history going back approximately 1,000 years to the [[Vikings]]<ref name="longbuckby.net">{{cite web |url=http://www.longbuckby.net/index.asp?pageid=671194|title=A Very Brief Village History|website=longbuckby.net}}</ref> when all of northern, central and eastern England came under the [[Danelaw]]. The village was recorded in [[Domesday Book]] as ''Buchebei''<ref>{{cite web |title=The Domesday Book Online |url=http://www.domesdaybook.co.uk/northamptonshire2.html#longbuckby |access-date=25 January 2021}}</ref> and its prefix was first recorded in the [[Elizabethan era]] in reference to the length of the village.<ref name="NVB">{{cite book |title=The Northamptonshire Village Book |date=1989 |publisher=NFWI and Countryside Books |isbn=1-85306-055-0 |pages=113–114}}</ref>

Near the centre of the village are the remaining earthworks of a medieval [[castle]], which was probably built by the lords of the [[Manorialism|manor]], the [[Earl of Winchester|de Quincy family]], in the [[12th century]]. The castle was likely an earth and timber construction, built by 1150 AD and occupied until some time after 1200 AD.<ref>{{cite web |title=Long Buckby Castle Northamptonshire |url=http://www.robertsewell.ca/longbuckby.html |publisher=robertsewell.ca |access-date=13 November 2021}}</ref> The surviving earthworks, known locally as The Mounts, consist of an oval ring surrounded by a ditch.<ref name="NVB"/><ref>{{cite web |title=Long Buckby ringwork and bailey A Scheduled Monument in Long Buckby, Northamptonshire |url=https://ancientmonuments.uk/111230-long-buckby-ringwork-and-bailey-long-buckby#.YBHlFpsYDIU |publisher=ancientmonuments.uk |access-date=27 January 2021}}</ref>

The tower of the parish [[St Lawrence's Church, Long Buckby|church of St Lawrence]] dates to the 12th century, with the rest of the building added later.<ref name="NVB"/>

Long Buckby was once a thriving industrial village: In the 17th century a [[wool]]len industry was established and Long Buckby became a centre of weaving and woolcombing. After 1800 this went into decline and was replaced by a thriving [[shoemaking]] industry. This was enhanced by the arrival of the [[Grand Union Canal]] in the early 19th century, upon which Long Buckby had a busy wharf. The shoemaking industry went into gradual decline in the 20th century and had died out by 2000.<ref name="longbuckby.net"/>

Since the 1960s the construction of the nearby [[M1 motorway]] has spurred expansion of the village from around 2,500 inhabitants to more 4,000 and has caused the nature of the village to change into a residential and commuter village.<ref name="longbuckby.net"/>

[[Nonconformist (Protestantism)|Nonconformity]] was a strong tradition in the village, with a chapel of the [[United Reform Church]] built here in 1707.  The present building was built in 1771.<ref name="NVB"/>

The small hamlet of Long Buckby Wharf is separate from the main village but within the parish. It is located alongside the [[Grand Union Canal]] and was once a thriving community with its own post office, church and village hall.<ref name="NVB"/>

The village offers a wide range of amenities and services, including a doctor's surgery, two dentists, four churches, two schools, a public library, a veterinary surgery, a boarding cattery, a post office, a community centre, Long Buckby Mill Park Nature Reserve and Cotton End Park. There are three pubs in the village (The Pigeon, Old King's Head & a micro-pub Badger's Arms). A fourth pub, The Admiral Rodney, is closed and now a hair salon and rented flats. Local shops include two grocery stores, a butcher’s, several hairdressers, a card and gift shop, a chemist and a wide range of restaurants and take-aways.

The English comedian [[Stanley Unwin (comedian)|Stanley Unwin]] moved to Long Buckby in 1940<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.teletronic.co.uk/stanleyunwin.htm |title=Stanley Urwin |website=Teletronic.co.uk |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090303103039/http://www.teletronic.co.uk/stanleyunwin.htm |archive-date=3 March 2009 }}</ref> when he got a job with the [[BBC]] at the nearby [[Borough Hill]] transmitting station. He lived there until his death in 2002.

[[Long Buckby railway station]] was opened in 1881 on the [[Northampton Loop Line]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Quick |first1=Michael |title=Railway Passenger Stations in Great Britain |url=https://rchs.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Railway-Passenger-Stations-ver.-5.03.pdf |publisher=Railway and Canal Historical Society |access-date=10 November 2021 |page=289}}</ref> Until the mid-1960s Long Buckby boasted its own goods-marshalling yard, which played a very significant role in the once thriving village economy, providing for the import of fuel and consumables for local business and residents as well as delivering the mail and packages to the village post office and newspapers to the village newsagents. Local agricultural produce and to a lesser extent livestock were exported from the facility.

Long Buckby railway station, as the nearest stop to [[Althorp]], was the final stop on the rail journey by the then [[Charles, Prince of Wales|Prince of Wales]], his two sons and others following the [[funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales]] and as such it was seen on television across the world.<ref>{{cite web |title=Funeral of Princess Diana: Royal Family arrives at Long Buckby Station |url=https://www.gettyimages.com.au/detail/video/funeral-of-princess-diana-royal-family-arrives-at-long-news-footage/1287275054 |publisher=Getty Images |access-date=23 September 2021}}</ref>