Cuckney

Cuckney

Cuckney

Human settlement in England

Cuckney is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Norton, Cuckney, Holbeck and Welbeck, in the Bassetlaw district of Nottinghamshire, England, located between Worksop and Market Warsop. In 2001 the parish had a population of 215.In 2001 the parish had a population of 31.[1]

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Cuckney Church in the eighteenth century

The A60 road connects Market Warsop and Cuckney via Cuckney Hill.

History

The grounds of Cuckney Parish Church, a Grade I listed building, contain the remains of Cuckney Castle.

George Sitwell, Ironmaster mined iron locally and he built a blast furnace here in the seventeenth century.[2]

In 1853 there were two large watermills on the river Poulter in Cuckney, one for cotton, another for corn. An earlier cotton mill had burnt down in 1792.

On 1 April 2015 the civil parish was abolished and merged with Norton to form "Norton and Cuckney".[3] On 1 April 2023 it became part of Norton, Cuckney, Holbeck and Welbeck.[4]

The school

The upstream mill is now a primary school. Cuckney Church of England Primary School has 140 pupils on its roll. [when?]

See also

References

  1. [1]
    Neighbourhood Statistics
  2. [2]
    Philip Riden, 'Sitwell, George (bap. 1601, d. 1667)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 2 March 2010
  3. [3]
    "Bulletin of change 2014 Final" (PDF). Lgbce. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 March 2018. Retrieved 15 March 2018.
  4. [4]
    "The Bassetlaw (Reorganisation of Community Governance) Order 2022" (PDF). Local Government Boundary Commission for England. Retrieved 12 July 2023.



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