Cuckney

The Library at Worksop will prove useful in your research.

The Library at Mansfield will also have resources that you can use.

Ian S. has a photograph of the church graveyard on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2015.

Andrew HILL also has a photograph of the Churchyard on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2012.

• The parish was in the Carburton sub-district of the Worksop Registration District.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

• A church is mentioned here in the 1086 Domeday Book.
   
• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Mary and was built in the 12th century.
   
• Older records give the church as dedicated to Saint Michael, but this is clearly incorrect.
   
• The church was restored in 1667.
   
• The church was re-roofed, re-pewed and thoroughly repaired but poorly restored in 1831.
   
• The church was properly restored in 1907.
   
• The church seats 400.
   
• The church is a Grade I listed building with British Heritage.
   
• Tim HEATON has a photograph of the Church of St. Mary on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2009.
   
• And Richard CROFT has a photograph of St. Mary's Church on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2012.
   

• The Anglican parish registers exist from 1632.
   
• In the church nave floor is a worn slab of black marble, reputed to be the tomb of Robert PIERREPONT, who died c.1643.
   
• Brian JOHNSON has transcriptions of the Norton Cuckney Parish Registers on his website.
   
• Here was a small Methodist chapel here in 1885.
   
• At Woodhouse a small Catholic chapel was built and a priest came monthly from Spinkhill to perform services.

• The parish was in the Carburton sub-district of the Worksop Registration District.
   
• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
   

This village and parish lies in North-west Nottingham just east of the Derbyshire border at Whaley Thorns. Worksop is 5 miles north and Mansfield about 5 miles south. The River Poulter runs through the parish.

There are three other villages in the parish: Holbeck, Langwith and Norton. If you are planning a visit:

• Nottingham city provides daily bus service.
   
• Tim HEATON provides a photograph of the Norton Village Sign on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2009.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

• We have an extract from White's 1853 Directory relating to this parish.
   

John Marius WILSON's "Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1870-72" described Cuckney as:

"CUCKNEY, a village, a township, and a parish in Worksop district, Notts. The village stands 5½ miles S by W of Worksop r. station, and 8 N by E of Mansfield; has a post office under Mansfield; and was once a market-town. The township includes also the hamlets of Bonbusk and Milnthorpe. Pop., 540."

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Cuckney to another place.

The village feast was held on the second Sunday after New Michaelmas Day (29 Sept.).

In 1792 a large cotton mill here burnt down.

In the early 1800, many of the parish children were working in the local mills "watching" the machinery.

In 1853 there were two large watermills on the river Poulter in Cuckney, one for cotton, one for corn. An earlier cotton mill had burnt down in 1792.

Neil THEASBY has a photograph of "The Greendale Oak Inn" on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2016.

Here the Greendale Inn Proprietors from earlier Directories:

• See our Maps page for additional resources.
   

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK565709 (Lat/Lon: 53.231782, -1.154753), Cuckney which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Old Maps Online
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

Ian S. has a photograph of the War Memorial tablet in St. Mary's Church on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2015.

There is also a World War I Roll of Honour hanging in St. Mary's Church.

There are three stained glass windows in St. Mary's church dedicated to the memory of the men of the Sherwood Foresters who died in combat.

You can see the list of names from the Roll of Honour at the Nottinghamshire War Memorials site. By clicking on a name you can see what details they have on file.

A brass plaque under the three stained glass windows lists these men.

These are the men recorded on the War Memorial:

1. William Beaumont
2. Edwin Bennett
3. Ernest Booker
4. Harry Bottom
5. Ernest Walter Charter
6. Henry Charter
7. Joseph Dolby
8. Joseph Eaton
9. John William Groves
10. John Joseph Hakes
11. William Henry Hakes
12. Robert Cairns Hall
13. Alfred Hill
14. Harry Ibbotson
15. Herbert Marson
16. Cyril Charles Moore
17. George Henry Moore
18. Leonard Moore
19. Bertie Skelton
20. George Blatherwick Stubbins
21. Ernest Williams
22. Arthur Charles Willies

This parish is listed in many older sources as "Norton Cuckney".

• This place was an ancient Township in Nottingham county and was incorporated as a separate modern Civil Parish in December, 1866.
   
• The parish was in the ancient Bassetlaw Wapentake (Hundred) in the northern division of the county.
   
• District governance is provided by the Bassetlaw District Council.
   

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Worksop petty session hearings.
   
• After the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, this parish became part of the Worksop Poor Law Union.
   

Year	Cuckney	Holbeck	Langwith	Norton
1811	397	226	361	289
1851	620	255	275	398
1901	489	224	322	277

An Infants School was built here in 1875 to hold 90 children.

Cuckney Church of England Primary School took over one of the mills on the Poulter River and now has 140 pupils on its roll.