Buckerell is located within East Devon local authority area. Historically it formed part of Hemyock Hundred. It falls within Ottery Deanery for ecclesiastical purposes. The Deaneries are used to arrange the typescript Church Notes of B.F.Cresswell which are held in the Westcountry Studies Library. The population was 280 in 1801 240 in 1901 . Figures for other years are available on the local studies website. In 1641/2 86 adult males signed the Protestation returns.

A parish history file is held in Honiton Library. You can look for other material on the community by using the place search on the main local studies database. Further historical information is also available on the Genuki website.

Maps: The image below is of the Buckerell area on Donn's one inch to the mile survey of 1765.

On the County Series Ordnance Survey mapping the area is to be found on 1:2,500 sheet 70/2 Six inch (1:10560) sheet 70NW
The National Grid reference for the centre of the area is ST122005. On the post 1945 National Grid Ordnance Survey mapping the sheets are: 1:10,000 (six inch to a mile: sheet ST10SW, 1:25,000 mapping: sheet Explorer 030, Landranger (1:50,000) mapping: sheet 192. Geological sheet 326 also covers the area.

Illustrations: The image below is of Buckerell as included in the Library's Etched on Devon's memory website. Other images can be searched for on the local studies catalogue.

Extract from Devon by W.G.Hoskins (1954), included by kind permission of the copyright holder:

BUCKERELL has a pleasant little 15th century church (St. Mary and St. Giles) with N. and S. transepts, plastered allover externally. It was completed in 1403, according to a stone in the vestry. The credence in the chancel bears the same date. A fine chancel-screen of unusual type was brought from elsewhere and fitted here. The groining is perfect on both sides and the cornices are good. The church, which is attractive internally, is fitted with 18th century box-pews, probably inserted in 1773 when the plan of the seating was made, and there is a W. gallery of the same date. The "sheaf pew" shown on the plan was the pew of whoever held the rectorial tithes ("the sheaf ") for the time being. In the N. transept is a monument by John Bacon, R.A. (1792), to Samuel Graves, Admiral of the White, who lived at Hembury Fort. The church possesses an Elizabethan chalice made at Exeter by John Jones in 1576.