Cuckney

Cuckney is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Norton, Cuckney, Holbeck and Welbeck, in the Bassetlaw district of Nottinghamshire, England, located between Worksop and Market Warsop.

George Sitwell, Ironmaster mined iron locally and 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.

[4] It is also believed that the Battle of Hatfield Chase took place close to Cuckney due to the discovery of a mass burial beneath the church, and due to the etymological links of nearby Edwinstowe, named after the king that died in the battle.

Cuckney Church of England Primary School has 140 pupils on its roll.

Cuckney Church in the eighteenth century