Ault Hucknall

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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.

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Notes

  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

  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

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