Brewer's: Buckingham

(Saxon, boccen-ham, beech-tree village.) Fuller, in his Worthies, speaks of the beech-trees as the most characteristic feature of this county.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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