Two adjacent townships of Bucks County's iconic rolling farmland. Restored 1700s stone farmhouses on five-acre parcels. Working farms still in operation. Equestrian estates. Peddlers Village in Lahaska. The countryside that other parts of the region are still trying to look like.
Welsh and English Quaker farmers settled this stretch of central Bucks County in the 1690s. They built stone houses out of fieldstone — fast, plentiful, and freezing-cold. Three hundred years later, those same stone farmhouses are still here, restored, and trade for prices that would have astonished the original Quakers.
Buckingham and Solebury Townships sit between Doylestown and the Delaware River. Buckingham was incorporated in 1692; Solebury split off in 1702. For most of their history they were dense agricultural townships — wheat, corn, dairy, eventually orchards. The roads — Durham, Mechanicsville, Aquetong, Sugan — followed the original Lenape footpaths and the colonial-era farm roads. They wind. They have stone walls. They are not designed for speed.
The area's most extraordinary preservation is its housing stock. A typical Buckingham or Solebury road has working farms next to restored 1740s stone houses next to 1870s Victorian farmhouses next to 1920s Quaker meeting houses next to a 2010s addition that intentionally matches the local fieldstone. Every era is here, and the local zoning has been aggressive about keeping subdivisions out. That's why the countryside still looks like a countryside.
Buckingham Township is the larger of the two — about 20,000 residents over 33 square miles. It includes Lahaska (home to Peddlers Village, a 1962-built Cotswold-themed retail and dining village that draws weekend visitors), Wycombe, and Mechanicsville. Buckingham is in the Central Bucks School District, PA top-25.
Solebury Township is smaller — about 8,500 residents over 27 square miles — and shares the New Hope-Solebury School District with the borough of New Hope. Solebury skews more residential and slightly less commercial than Buckingham — fewer shops, more horse farms, more multi-acre estates. The two together form what most outsiders mean when they say "Bucks County" — the rolling, stone-house, equestrian-leaning countryside that's been the county's marketing image for a hundred years.
Cotswold-themed shopping village built 1962 by Earl Hamilton Jamison. Restaurants, the Golden Plough Inn, seasonal festivals, the Christmas Festival of Lights. The Buckingham anchor.
Durham Road, Aquetong, Sugan, Mechanicsville, Stoney Hill. Two-lane, stone-walled, occasionally one-lane bridges. They follow the geography. Driving is slower and more pleasant.
Carversville, Ingham Spring, Lake Galena Road. Working dairies, organic farms, vineyards (Crossing, Bishop Estate, Sand Castle), apple orchards. Roadside stands in season.
Bucks County is the densest concentration of equestrian estates in eastern Pennsylvania. The Brandywine Polo Club, fox hunts, dressage barns. Horses on the road occasionally.
Public park in Solebury at the river. The 110-foot stone observation tower, marking Washington's December 1776 lookout point, is open seasonally. The wildflower preserve runs 134 acres.
Two of the most preserved 18th- and 19th-century villages in PA. Carversville's general store and the Carversville Inn (founded 1813) are still operating. Lumberville is a six-block river town with the Black Bass Hotel (1745) on the Delaware.
1700s–1800s fieldstone originals on 3–15 acre parcels. Restored interiors, often with modern kitchens and additions designed to match. The defining product.
1700s–1800s fieldstone originals on 3–15 acre parcels. Restored interiors, often with modern kitchens and additions designed to match. The defining product.
Multi-acre originals with 20+ acres, paddocks, equestrian use, sometimes guest cottages. Often trade off-market entirely.
Active agricultural parcels with 25–100+ acres. Original farmhouse, barns, ag-easement-protected acreage. Increasingly rare every year.
2000s-onward builds in fieldstone and clapboard, designed to match local typology. Modern interiors, larger footprints, less character but easier ownership.
Buckingham and Solebury are quiet markets — and a substantial share of the trophy properties trade off-market entirely, through a small network of agents and word-of-mouth listings.
Tell us what you're looking for — restored stone farmhouse, trophy estate with acreage, working farm, or matching new construction — and we'll route you to what's coming up before it's public.
— Prosperity Real Estate & Investment Services