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Ault Hucknall, CHESTERFIELD, S44 5QH

Ault Hucknall is often thought of as the smallest village in England. Locals insist that it is a village and not a hamlet because it boasts a church as well as its three houses.

Apart from this former farm worker's cottage, Home Farm's farmhouse and one modern house, there are no other houses in this hamlet. This is a view along Ault Hucknall Road towards Glapwell (5-10 mins away by car). The top of the church tower is just visible.

Rose Cottage, on the west side of the Parish Church, is a former farm-worker's cottage. Records held in Hardwick Hall show that Home Farm, 30 metres to the east of the adjacent church, had become Hardwick Hall's home farm by the early-mid C19th.

This north-easterly facing photograph shows the northern end of a bridleway that connects Ault Hucknall (immediately ahead) with Hardwick Park (behind the viewpoint). The road is the very western end of Image From this point westward the roadway is called Image To the right (east) of the building ahead (Rose Cottage) is Image For a more south-westerly (behind the viewpoint) photograph of the bridleway, click here Image * * * See also these photographs by: Alan Heardman: Image and Dave Bevis: Image

St. John the Baptist Church in Ault Hucknall, is one of just a handful of buildings in this location. To the east there is a house and a farm on Image and to the west a second house adjacent to the entry to a public Image to Hardwick Park. The church is approximately a 1000 years. Inside there is a monument to Anne Keighley, the wife of the first Earl of Devonshire. There is also a slab commemorating the philosopher Thomas Hobbes, who died at Hardwick Hall in 1679. In the end wall (west, facing) there is a blocked-up doorway, which has this Image above it. * * * See also these photographs by: Trevor Rickard: Image, SMJ Image and Peter Barr: Image

The well dressing on display was celebrating a new roof for the church.

This westerly facing photograph is of the western end of Ault Hucknall Lane and was taken from a point adjacent to Image Ahead, from the Image on the left, the lane becomes Image The churchyard entrance on the right provides wheelchair access to the church. For another photograph of the lane taken from approximately the same viewpoint but looking in the opposite (westerly) direction, click here Image

Ault Hucknall is the tiniest of tiny hamlets comprising a church, the vicar's manse, a farm and this single cottage.

This easterly facing photograph is of the eastern end of Hodmire Lane as it approaches Ault Hucknall. The lane ends at Rose Cottage (the roof and chimneys can be seen amongst the trees) where it becomes Image Above the trees on the left is the tower of Image For a more westerly (behind the viewpoint) photograph of Hodmire Lane, click here Image