AULT HUCKNALL, Derbyshire
Census
- The parish was in the Shirebrook sub-district of the Mansfield Registration District.
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Church History
- The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint John the Baptist.
- The church was repaired in 1850.
- The church was restored in 1887.
- The church seats 250.
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Church Records
- The Anglican parish register dates from 1660.
- Marriages at Hault (Ault) Hucknall, 1660-1812 are available in Nigel Batty-Smith's database of scanned images of
Phillimore's Parish Registers.
- The church was in the rural deanery of Chesterfield.
- The Wesleyan Methodists built a small chapel here in 1835.
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Civil Registration
- Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
- The parish was in the Shirebrook sub-district of the Mansfield Registration District.
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Description and Travel
"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]
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Directories
- Ann Andrews provides a transcription of the Ault Hucknall entry from Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).
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Gazetteers
- The transcription of the section for Ault Hucknall from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.
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Politics and Government
- This place was an ancient parish in Derby county and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
- This parish was partly in the ancient Scarsdale Hundred (or Wapentake).
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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.
- After the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, this parish became part of the Mansfield Poor Law Union.