Buckingham is the largest township in Bucks County, covering 33 square miles of rolling farmland east of Doylestown. Settled by English Quakers around 1700, it remains largely rural and residential, with stone farmhouses, horse properties, and country roads lined with old trees. The Quaker influence is still visible — the Buckingham Friends Meeting House on Route 202 has been in continuous use since 1768 — and the township was an important stop on the Underground Railroad.
There is no real centre to Buckingham: the township is a patchwork of villages — Holicong, Lahaska, Mechanicsville, Forest Grove — each with a handful of old buildings and a country store. Most travellers come for the antiques and crafts in Peddler's Village at Lahaska, the wines from the local vineyards, or as a base for exploring nearby New Hope, Doylestown, and the Delaware River canal towns.
Buckingham Mountain rises in the centre of the township — not really a mountain, more of a long ridge — with hiking trails and a small African Methodist Episcopal church atop the wooded summit, built by free Black families who settled here in the early 1800s. Two-lane country roads cross the township: Route 202 north towards Lahaska, Route 263 south towards Doylestown. Driving these in autumn, when the trees turn, is one of the pleasures of Bucks County.