An old and important settlement in the Westfarthing of the Shire. It was the location of Great Smials, the ancestral seat of the Took clan, the hereditary Thains of the Shire.
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It is known that Tuckborough was one of the oldest settlements of the Shire-hobbits, though whether it dated all the way back to the Shire's foundation is open to question. The Yearbook of Tuckborough (also called Yellowskin) contained entries dating back to approximately III 2100 (or about 500 by the Shire-reckoning), which might imply that the town itself was founded in the same general period, though that dating cannot of course be taken as conclusive. |
See also...
Four Farthings, Great Place of the Tooks, Great Smials, Green Hill Country, Green Hills, Paladin Took II, Smials, Stock Road, The Smials, Took Family, Tookbank, Tookland, Whitwell
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