Buxton – Name Origin

And following on from my visit to Buxton yesterday (the one in Norfolk, not the one in Derbyshire), this is what The Concise Oxford Dictionary Of English Placenames have to say about the origins of the village name.

Buxton, Norfolk. Buchestuna in Domesday Book, Buxstone in 1254. Bucc’s Tun.

Short and sweet, ‘tun’ is a farm or village, so it’s the settlement of ‘Bucc’. As an aside, Buxton in Derbyshire has a different word origin, theirs relates to a rocking stone. There is also the possibility that there wasn’t a person called Bucc, but instead the village was named after deer (or bucks) which might have been kept there.