Ault Hucknall
Ault Hucknall (Old English: Hucca's nook of land) 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.
Local residents describe the settlement as the 'smallest village in England', as it consists of only a church and three houses. The philosopher Thomas Hobbes was interred within Ault Hucknall's St John the Baptist Church following his death in 1679.
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
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ault Hucknall.
- Ault Hucknall CP (Parish) Neighbourhood statistics website, Office for National Statistics.
- Church Guide
- Photos
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