Buckland
Buckland is a strip of settled land between the Brandywine River and the Old Forest in The Fellowship of the Ring, a colony of the Shire ruled by the Brandybuck family from Brandy Hall and thought odd by Shire-folk.
Across the Brandywine River, at the very edge of respectable hobbit geography, The Fellowship of the Ring finds a border country. Buckland is a narrow strip of settled land between the river and the eaves of the Old Forest, colonized long ago by the family that took the name Brandybuck, whose warren-like Brandy Hall honeycombs Buck Hill. Strictly speaking it is not part of the Shire at all, but a little country of its own under the Master of the Hall. Shire-folk consider Bucklanders peculiar: they live on the wrong side of the river, they fool about with boats, and after dark they lock their doors, which no proper Shire hobbit does. Against their strange neighbor the Forest they maintain the High Hay, a vast hedge running the length of the land. Frodo Baggins's mother was born a Brandybuck, and Buckland plays its part early in his story.
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