Description
Ault-Hucknall, or Hault-Hucknall, a scattered village and a parish in Derbyshire, on the verge of the county, adjacent to Hardwick Park, 5 miles ENE of Claycross railway station, and 6 1/2 SE of Chesterfield. The parish contains the hamlets of Rowthome, Stainsby, Hardwick, Hardstoft, Astwith, and Dol Lea, and its post town is Heath under Chesterfield. Acreage, 4429; population of the civil parish, 1388; , of the ecclesiastical, 1791. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Southwell; net value, £151. Patron, the Duke of Devonshire. The church is good, and contains monuments. to the first Countess of Devonshire and to the philosopher Hobbes.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
