Cuckney is a village and former
civil parish, now in the parish of
Norton and Cuckney, in the
Bassetlaw
Bassetlaw may refer to:
* Bassetlaw (UK Parliament constituency), Nottinghamshire constituency in the British House of Commons
* Bassetlaw District General Hospital, a National Health Service hospital in Worksop, Nottinghamshire
* Bassetlaw Distri ...
district of
Nottinghamshire, England, located between
Worksop and
Market Warsop.
The
A60 road connects Market Warsop and Cuckney via
Cuckney Hill. The civil parish was merged with
Norton to form Norton and Cuckney.
History
The grounds of
Cuckney Parish Church, a
Grade I listed
In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Northern Irel ...
building, contain the remains of
Cuckney Castle.
George Sitwell,
Ironmaster mined iron locally and he built a blast furnace here in the seventeenth century.
[Philip Riden, 'Sitwell, George (bap. 1601, d. 1667)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 200]
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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.
The school
The upstream mill is now a primary school. Cuckney Church of England Primary School has 140 pupils on its roll.
References
External links
Villages in Nottinghamshire
Former civil parishes in Nottinghamshire
Bassetlaw District
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