Buccleuch is a suburb of Sandton, in the Gauteng province of South Africa.
[2] The farm of 7,030 acres was purchased by John Alexander Gibson, a British immigrant, who owned a coach transport business.
[2] When those animals were no longer used as transport the farmland was kept until his death in 1928 when it was divided amongst seven heirs and was sold.
[2] A son, Frederick Chapman Gibson, kept 1000 acres but would sell the eastern portion to AECI the owners of the Modderfontein Dynamite factory in 1938 and the portion left, surveyed as a township divided into 170 stands of 3 to 5 acres with 50 stands on the Jukskei River selling for £475 and up.
[2] Originally spelt Buccleugh it obtained its current name on 23 September 1992.