Cuckney
| Cuckney | |
| Nottinghamshire | |
|---|---|
 St Mary's Church Norton Cuckney | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SK564712 |
| Location: | 53°14’6"N, 1°9’14"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Mansfield |
| Postcode: | NG20 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Bassetlaw |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Bassetlaw |
Cuckney is a village in Nottinghamshire, located between Worksop and Market Warsop in the north of the county.
The A60 road connects Market Warsop and Cuckney by way of Cuckney Hill.
Parish church
The Church of England parish church is St Mary's Church@Cuckney Parish Church. It is a Grade I listed building.[1]
History
The grounds of St Mary's Church contain the remains of Cuckney Castle.
George Sitwell, the ironmaster, mined iron locally. He built a blast furnace here in the seventeenth century.[2]
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.
Outside links
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References
- ↑ National Heritage List : Church of St Mary (Grade I listing)
- ↑ Philip Riden, 'Sitwell, George (bap. 1601, d. 1667)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 2 March 2010