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Location
In Buckland, on the eastern banks of the River Brandywine
Race
Hobbits
Culture
Bucklanders
Settlements
Brandy Hall, the home of the Brandbuck clan, was excavated into the hill; parts of the village of Bucklebury lay on its eastern slopes
Family
Associated with the Brandybuck family
Meaning
Probably derived by association with the names Oldbuck and Brandybuck1

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  • Updated 23 March 2007
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Buck Hill

The hill that held Brandy Hall

A hill overlooking the village of Bucklebury in Buckland, deeply burrowed with the smials that made up Brandy Hall, the ancestral home of the Brandybuck family.


Notes

1

It seems to follow that Buck Hill could not have been called 'Buck Hill' before Gorhended Oldbuck settled in Buckland and began the delving of Brandy Hall. If the hill had a name before this time, it is not recorded.

See also...

Brandy Hall, Brandybuck Family, Buckland, Bucklebury, Deepdelver, Gormadoc ‘Deepdelver’ Brandybuck, Master of Buckland

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