Buckingham is a market town in north Buckinghamshire, England, close to the borders of Northamptonshire and Oxfordshire. It was settled by the Romans, who established pottery kilns in the area; the Anglo-Saxon leader Bucca later settled the area, whose name means "meadow of Bucca's people". In 914 AD, King Edward the Elder of Wessex recaptured Buckingham from the Danes during his unification of England, and he restored its old fort. Buckingham was chartered in 1554, and Aylesbury replaced Buckingham as the county town during the early 18th century. In 2011, Buckingham had a population of 12,890 people, and, from 1918, it was a strong Conservative Party bastion (with Labour interruptions from 1945 to 1951 and from 1964 to 1970).
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Buckingham in 870