William Buckland 
William Buckland was born at Axminster in England and the year of his birth was 1784. He was a geologist. He went to a school in Winchester, then he went to the Corpus Christi College at Oxford in England. In 1825 he got married to Mary Morland.  He died in 1856. 

The Church and Stone Wall  
 Around the old churchyard a stone wall was built on 23-2-1887.  On August the 22nd of 1846, was the day remembered by the early congregation , for the Archdeacon of Hobart, Fitzherbert Adams Marriott laid the foundation stone, of the church.  On the stone it said "That God may in this place be glorified, and the prayers and praises of the faithful continually offered until Christ shall come again.  The stone was turned around so that the writing was in the wall, so it is not visible. 

In the church of St John the Baptist in Buckland, there is a stained glass window depicting the life of John the Baptist and is said to date from the 14th century.  The story is that the window  came originally from  Battle Abbey in England.  When Oliver Cromwell was sacking the Abbeys in the 14th century the window was hidden before it could be destroyed.  Two centuries later Lord Robert Cecil , then secretary of state for the colonies, gave it to Dean J.H Fosc,Buckland's Rectory.  It is now set into the East wall of the church.  The church was built in 1846.  The Old Post Office was built at the same time and about the same time as the Old Shop House .  There have been 30 Reverends at the Buckland church up to 1994 .  

Rectory  
During the time of the Reverend H.W. Root ,the rectory became the centre of education for the son’s of Pastoralists in the district, being known as St John’s College. 

Ye Olde Buckland Inn  
The Ye Olde Buckland Inn was built in 1841 and it is the same as it used to be, but now where the toilets are, there used to be tables and chairs.  The bar is new too.  

Post Office  
The Buckland Post Office was built in 1855 and it went all the way until 1976 and then it closed down. 
The Convicts had to deliver the mail by foot and these are the places where they had to go to and they are: Hobart, Richmond, Prosser plains, Spring Bay and Swanport in 1831.  

Farms  
Halstead  
W.C, Adams and H.Adams had 2,000 acres in 1836 and then they moved to a bricked shack at the Halstead. 
Court Farm  
In 1831 ,George Gatehouse , Silas Clements and William Gatehouse, came to Court Farm. At Court Farm there is 1.000 acres. 
William Bath Gatehouse was born at Court Farm in 1865 and he went to the local school, before farming with his father.  William Gatehouse was a member of the Spring Bay Council, the Board of Health and of Advice {to the local schools} and captain of the Buckland Cricket Club. 
Twamley  
Twamley is the largest property out of Prosser Plains, because they had 2,500 acres. The property was called  "Villeneuve ".In 1874 John Turvey leased Twamley and in 1884 he brought the property .   {At Boomer Hill there is 214 acres}.  

School  
In October 1846, the Sunday school was made ,before the church was made in 1849.  The St John's Sunday School was used as a parochial School from 1849.  Four years later the school closed down, because there was not a lot of children going to school. The old stone school re-opened in 1905 and then in 1929 a weatherboard school, which cost $413, was built nearby.  In 1953 the school closed and it was moved up to Orford.  

Mill  
In 1948 C.B and D.R Chesterman opened the timber mill, it holds 40,000 super feet per week.  In 1969, the Buckland Mill employed ten men, six to work in the mill and four to work in the bush.  The mill closed in November 1981 and they pulled it down in 1994. 

Cruttenden Family 
Thomas Cruttenden was born on July the 7th of 1800 and he died on the 28th of 1883.  Thomas Cruttenden’s sister married the Reverend  Cox.  Thomas Cruttenden built the Rectory for them.  Thomas Cruttenden built Mr Mace’s house and he also built the Ye Olde Buckland Inn. 
George Cruttenden , died on October the 5th of 1880 at the age of  78.  
Rebecca Cruttenden , died on the 24th of the 1850.  She was 51 years old . 

Where to Find Buckland  
Buckland is located 63 km north east of Hobart, which is on the Tasman Highway.  Buckland is a quiet town and it is mainly noticed for its historic church. 

Facts  
Eboney Iles’s house used to be a mill cottage and their backyard was a bit of the Old Mill, so were all the houses in the street. 
Karlie Walker's house was the Old Mill House, but the Old Mill House was pulled down and then in 1990 and the house was re-built. 

Horse Track 
Behind the pub there used the horse stables.  At Prosser Plains there used to be a racetrack where the cricket oval is now.  

Did You Know ?  
From March the 22nd of 1837 until October the 11th ,  they used the police station as a church ,  because the church was not built then .  The house that was burnt down recently was the original Coach House, a goal and it was also the School House.