While once a small village a mile from Plymouth, Eggbuckland is now part of the city of Plymouth, Devon, England.
Bocheland is of Saxon origin and means "Royal land held by charter". The Domesday Book of 1086 recorded that this manor was held by the King, William of Normandy, but was granted to the Saxon Heche or Ecca, thus the land was known as Heche or Ecca's Bocheland. Overtime this has been corrupted and by 1685 was Egg Buckland and by 1902, Eggbuckland. The village was held by the Royalist Caviliers during the Civil War 1642 to 1646 against the Parliamentarian Roundheads and was badly damaged.
The ancient parish of Eggbuckland was in the County of Devon; the Roborough Hundred; the Midland Roborough Petty Sessional Division; the Plympton St Mary Union; the East Stonehouse County Court District; the rural deanery of Plympton; the archdeaconry of Totnes and the diocese of Exeter.
Eggbuckland, with Mr Christopher Tolcher as Lord of the Manor in 1870.
The Parish Constable for Eggbuckland in 1857 was Mr George Dawe, a dairyman from Knackersknowle; and in 1870 was Mr William Jago.
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