What is "bulkeley"

Bulkeley is a village and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. The village is situated at on the A534 about 9 miles west of Nantwich. The civil parish also includes the small settlement of Bulkelehay (also Bulkeleyhay or Bulkeley Hey) at , with a total population in 2001 of just below 250. Bulkeley Hill falls within the civil parish. The name is first recorded as Bulceleia in 1086 and is from Old English bulluc + leah 'pasture where bullocks graze.'

Bulkeley or Bulkley is a surname. Notable persons with that surname include:

• Elisabeth Rivers-Bulkeley (1924-2006), Austrian stock broker
• Henry Bulkeley (c. 1641–1698), English courtier and politician
• James Michael Freke Bulkeley (1761–1796), Nova Scotian civil servant and political figure
• John D. Bulkeley (1911–1996), American Vice Admiral in United States Navy
• Morgan Bulkeley (1837–1922), American politician, business and sports executive
• Peter Bulkley (1583–1659), English-born Puritan preacher and American colonist of Massachusetts
• Richard Bulkeley (died 1621) (fl.1563-1621), Welsh politician in the Elizabethan era
• Richard Bulkeley (governor) (1717-1800), Irish-born colonial governor of Nova Scotia
• Robert Bulkeley, 2nd Viscount Bulkeley (died 1688), MP for Anglesey 1660–61, Caernarvonshire 1675–79, and Anglesey 1685–89
• Robert Bulkeley (died 1702), son of 2nd Viscount, MP for Beaumaris 1701–02
• Robert J. Bulkley (1880–1965), American Congressman and Senator from Ohio
• Thomas Bulkeley, 1st Viscount Bulkeley (1585–1659), North Welsh landowner and Royalist supporter during the English Civil War
• Thomas Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley (1752–1822), English aristocrat and politician