Cuckney
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Cuckney is a small village in the Bassetlaw district of Nottinghamshire, between Worksop and Market Warsop.
The A60 road connects Market Warsop and Cuckney via Cuckney Hill.
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[edit] History
The grounds of Cuckney Parish Church, contain the remains of Cuckney Castle.
George Sitwell, Ironmaster mined iron locally and he built a blast furnace here in the seventeenth century.[1]
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.
[edit] The school
The upstream mill is now a primary school. Cuckney Church of England Primary School has 140 pupils on its role.
[edit] References
- ^ Philip Riden, ‘Sitwell, George (bap. 1601, d. 1667)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 2 March 2010
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Coordinates: 53°14′06″N 1°09′14″W / 53.235°N 1.154°W
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