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Turner Street, NOTTINGHAM, NG15 7FP

An old cottage which almost certainly pre-dates the growth of Hucknall as an industrial town.

On the corner of West Street and West Terrace. Still showing the signs of the old Home Ales brewery of Nottingham which closed in 1996.

An interesting mixture of architectural styles showing that the street was developed piecemeal. One of the earliest developments for colliery workers, probably dating from the 1870s.

A fine set dating from the late 1860s.

The Church of St. Mary Magdalene in Hucknall ("Huchenale" in the Domesday Book, 1086) is the Anglican parish church located off Market Square. It is Grade II* listed by the Department for Culture, Media & Sport as a particularly significant building of more than local interest. The Church has served as the traditional burial place for the Byron family who maintain a family vault there. The majority of the Lords Byron are buried in it, the most famous being the 6th Baron Byron, the romantic poet. A 14th century Angelus bell given to the church by the poet Lord Byron still hangs in the Church.

The stone in the church of St Mary Magdalene Hucknall which tributes the life of poet Lord Byron, who lived at nearby Newstead Abbey.

Some fine slate headstones have been moved to the boundary walls. Lord Byron is buried in the family vault beneath the chancel of the much-restored church of St Mary Magdalene. This was a damp April morning.

St Mary Magdalene Church, Hucknall, the final resting place of poet Lord Byron.

A small area of the churchyard intended to be "a place where people can retire and admire God's natural creation". (Quoted from the Parish Church website). Centrepiece is a black stone tablet commemorating Lord Byron who is entombed in the church.

The verger told us that when an investigation of the Byron crypt took place sometime in the early twentieth century, it seemed to prove beyond doubt that the poet was buried there, as one of the skeletons had a club foot.