Cuckney is a village and former

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of Parish (administrative division), administrative parish used for Local government in England, local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below district ...

, now in the parish of Norton and Cuckney, in the

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district of

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, England, located between

Worksop Worksop ( ) is a market town in the Bassetlaw District in Nottinghamshire, England. It is located east-south-east of Sheffield, close to Nottinghamshire's borders with South Yorkshire and Derbyshire, on the River Ryton and not far from ...

and

Market Warsop Warsop is a town and civil parish in the Mansfield district, Nottinghamshire, England, on the outskirts of the remnants of Sherwood Forest.OS Explorer Map 270: Sherwood Forest: (1:25 000): At the 2001 census it had a population of 12,365, reducin ...

. The

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connects Market Warsop and Cuckney via Cuckney Hill. The civil parish was merged with Norton to form Norton and Cuckney.

History

The grounds of Cuckney Parish Church, a

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building, contain the remains of Cuckney Castle. George Sitwell,

Ironmaster An ironmaster is the manager, and usually owner, of a forge or blast furnace for the processing of iron. It is a term mainly associated with the period of the Industrial Revolution, especially in Great Britain. The ironmaster was usually a larg ...

mined iron locally and he built a blast furnace here in the seventeenth century.Philip Riden, 'Sitwell, George (bap. 1601, d. 1667)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 200
accessed 2 March 2010
/ref> 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.

The school

The upstream mill is now a primary school. Cuckney Church of England Primary School has 140 pupils on its roll.

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Villages in Nottinghamshire Former civil parishes in Nottinghamshire Bassetlaw District {{Nottinghamshire-geo-stub