Buckden is a village and civil parish in the Craven district of North Yorkshire, England.

A footpath leads north-east from the village to the top of Buckden Pike, and another south-west to Litton, above Arncliffe, in Littondale.

Buckden has a village shop, a residential outdoor education centre and a public house, the Buck Inn.

Denis Healey, the former Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer (1974–1979), stated that he spent his honeymoon in a converted stable next to the Buck Inn.

[1] Buckden was historically a township in the ancient parish of Arncliffe, part of Staincliffe Wapentake in the West Riding of Yorkshire.

[11] The Parish Church of St Michael and All Angels is located in the nearby hamlet of Hubberholme.