Ault Hucknall

Village in Derbyshire, England

Human settlement in England

Ault Hucknall

St John the Baptist church

Ault Hucknall

Location within Derbyshire

Population| 1,053 (Including Astwith , Bramley Vale , Doe Lea and Stainsby. 2011)
OS grid reference| SK467652
District|

* Bolsover

Shire county|

* Derbyshire

Region|

* East Midlands

Country| England
Sovereign state| United Kingdom
Post town| CHESTERFIELD
Postcode district| S44
Dialling code| 01246
Police| Derbyshire
Fire| Derbyshire
Ambulance| East Midlands
UK Parliament|

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England
Derbyshire

53°10′55″N 1°18′07″W﻿ / ﻿53.182°N 1.302°W﻿ / 53.182; -1.302

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

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* 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

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1. ^ 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

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1. ^ "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"
2. ^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 18 March 2016.
3. ^ Thomas Hobbes: Biography, Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury, retrieved 26 September 2020

## External links

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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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