Ault Hucknall

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]

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	Bolsover
List of places UK England Derbyshire 53.182°N 1.302°W / 53.182; -1.302

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

• 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

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.