Ault Hucknall
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Ault Hucknall (Old English: Hucca's nook of land[1]) is a village and civil parish in the Bolsover district of Derbyshire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 1,053.[2]
Local residents describe the settlement as the 'smallest village in England', as it consists of only a church and three houses.[nb 1] The philosopher Thomas Hobbes was interred within Ault Hucknall's St John the Baptist Church following his death in 1679.[3]
Hardwick Hall is within the parish boundary, which also contains the settlements of Astwith, Bramley Vale, Doe Lea, Hardstoft, Rowthorne and Stainsby.
See also
- Listed buildings in Ault Hucknall
- List of places in Derbyshire
- Murder of Barbara Mayo, infamous unsolved murder of a woman which occurred in the village in 1970
Notes
- ^ although as a village is not legally defined in England, this is not a provable claim – many would refer to it as a hamlet.
References
- ^ "Ault Hucknall". Key to English Place-names. English Place Name Society/INS at the University of Nottingham. Retrieved 22 August 2013.
Ault, '(Old French) high', is a later addition to distinguish from Hucknall in Nottinghamshire
- ^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 18 March 2016.
- ^ Thomas Hobbes: Biography, Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury, retrieved 26 September 2020
External links
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- Ault Hucknall CP (Parish) Neighbourhood statistics website, Office for National Statistics.
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