Bucklanders

The inhabitants of Buckland on the eastern borders of the Shire, derive from the folk of the Eastfarthing who followed Gorhendad Oldbuck across the Brandywine, and were mainly Stoors.

The Bucklanders acknowledged the Master of Buckland as their leader. The Brandybucks, descendants of Gorhendad who founded Buckland, were considered the most important family of the Bucklanders;
the Masters had a strong Fallohidish strain in their blood, it is said, and this made them more adventurous than other Bucklanders.

While Hobbits are known to be afraid of rivers and boats, and few could swim (let alone of the Sea, a token of fear and death for them, and very few had ever saw it) the Bucklanders's boats were often seen on the Brandywine River that bordered their land.

On the eastern border of Buckland lay the dangerous Old Forest, and the constant threat of the dark trees made the Bucklanders somewhat hardier than typical hobbits.