Buckland, Portsmouth

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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 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.

Charles Dickens was born in Buckland, and the house of his birth is now a museum.