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AULT HUCKNALL, Derbyshire

"AULT-HUCKNALL, a parish in the hundred of Scarsdale, in the county of Derby, 6½ miles to the S.E. of Chesterfield, its post town, and 5½ N.W. of Mansfield. It is situated in a pleasant country, and contains the hamlets of Rowthorne, Stainsby, Hardwick, Harstoft, and Astwith. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield, of the value of £168, in the gift of the Duke of Devonshire, who is lord of the manor. The church contains a monument to Anne, first Countess of Devonshire, who died in 1598, and also one in memory of the philosopher Thomas Hobbes, who died herein 1679."

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]

Church Records

• A CD containing a transcription of The Parish Registers of St John the Baptist's Church (CMB 1662-1910) is available for purchase from 'Ancestral Archives'. Added 25 May 2008.

• Nigel Batty-Smith's site of United Kingdom Genealogy has scanned images of Marriages at Hault (Ault) Hucknall, 1660-1812 (from Phillmore's Derbyshire Parish Registers - Marriages, Volume 1).

Directories

• Transcription of section of Kelly's Directory (1891) for Ault Hucknall (includes Hardwick, Stainsby, Hardstoft, Rowthorne and Astwith) by Ann Andrews. Added 26 Jan 2007.

Gazetteers

• The transcription of the section for Ault Hucknall from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.

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