Duckmanton is a village within the civil parish of

Sutton cum Duckmanton Sutton cum Duckmanton is a civil parish in Derbyshire, England, between Bolsover and Chesterfield, Derbyshire, Chesterfield in the district of North East Derbyshire. The village has a Church of England, parish church, a public house, pub, The A ...

, in

North East Derbyshire North East Derbyshire is a Non-metropolitan district, local government district in Derbyshire, England. The council is based in the large village of Wingerworth. The district also includes the towns of Dronfield and Clay Cross as well as numerou ...

, between Bolsover and Chesterfield. Duckmanton is a long scattered village, running north and south, usually designated Long, Middle and Far Duckmanton, of which Middle Duckmanton is east from Chesterfield and west from Bolsover. In

chronostratigraphy Chronostratigraphy is the branch of stratigraphy that studies the ages of rock strata in relation to time. The ultimate aim of chronostratigraphy is to arrange the sequence of deposition and the time of deposition of all rocks within a geological ...

, the British sub-stage of the

Carboniferous The Carboniferous ( ) is a Geologic time scale, geologic period and System (stratigraphy), system of the Paleozoic era (geology), era that spans 60 million years, from the end of the Devonian Period Ma (million years ago) to the beginning of the ...

period, the 'Duckmantian' derives its name from the study of geological exposures in a railway cutting at Duckmanton. Since 2008 and the opening of the new junction 29a on the M1 motorway, Duckmanton has grown considerably with both industry and residents. The motorway services are easily accessible to residents both by car and on foot and currently has a pub and restaurant called The Little Castle, KFC restaurant and drive thru as well as a McDonalds restaurant and drive thru and Starbucks coffee shop and drive thru. One of the latest additions has been a fish and chip restaurant and drive thru - Chesters. There is also a petrol station which has a shop and concessions inside of Greggs and Subway. The latest addition will be a Noodle Bar but nothing has been started on that as of September 2024. Across the road from the services and under construction is a large EV charging station. As well as the much needed increase in industry and jobs for the area, there are also new build houses in the pipeline. 275 houses are being built within the village on land between Tom Lane and Rectory Road. These will be a welcome addition to the housing stock in the area now that the village is becoming a desirable place to work and to live with close access to transport links yet still within a semi rural setting and close to other amenities within a few miles.

History

Duckmanton is recorded in 1086 in the

Domesday Book Domesday Book ( ; the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book") is a manuscript record of the Great Survey of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 at the behest of William the Conqueror. The manuscript was originally known by ...

under the land of Ralph Fitzhubert.Ralph Fitzhubert had a number of manors in Derbyshire including

Crich Crich is a village and civil parish in the English county of Derbyshire. Besides the village of Crich, the civil parish includes the nearby villages of Fritchley, Whatstandwell and Wheatcroft, Derbyshire, Wheatcroft. The population of the civi ...

Palterton Scarcliffe is a village and civil parish in the Bolsover (district), Bolsover district of Derbyshire, England. It is sometimes called Scarcliffe with Palterton. The population of the parish (including the hamlets of Palterton, Rylah, Stockley, a ...

, Stoney Middleton, Boulton and Ashover.

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