AULT HUCKNALL PARISH COUNCIL
NEXT PARISH COUNCIL MEETING
PLEASE NOTE
THE next meeting of AULT HUCKNALL PARISH COUNCIL
will be the ANNUAL MEETING held on
TUESDAY 12th MAY 2026
immediately following the
ANNUAL PARISH MEETING
which will commence at
6:30 p.m. at
Doe Lea Centre, Doe Lea, Chesterfield S44 5PD
The papers for both meetings are available below
EVERYONE WELCOME
AUDIT OF ACCOUNTS 2024/2025
Annual Governance & Accountability Return for the year ended 31st March 2025
The audited accounts for 2024/25 are now available . The Notice of Conclusion of Audit can be viewed by clicking on the link Audit Closure 24-25.
You can also view the AGAR and internal audit report as submitted to the external auditor together an explanation of any significant variances between 23/24 and 24/25
AUDIT OF ACCOUNTS 2023/2024
Notice of Conclusion of Audit
Annual Governance & Accountability Return for the year ended 31st March 2024
The audit of accounts of Ault Hucknall Parish Council for the year ended 31 March 2024 has been completed and the closure documents can be viewed below by clicking on Audit Closure
This includes the
Notice of Conclusion of Audit,
Section 1 The Annual Governance Stament,
Section 2 The Accounting Statement and
Section 3 The External Auditors Report and Certificate
AUDIT OF ACCOUNTS 2022/2023
The Audit of Accounts for 2022-2023 has now been completed and the Closure documents can be viewed below by clicking on 'Audit Closure'. This includes the
Notice of Conclusion of Audit
Section 1 - The Annual Governance Statement
Section 2 - the Accounting Statement
Section 3 - the External Auditor's Report and Certificate
RISK MANAGEMENT 25/26
The Parish Council's Risk Management Report is available here
Ault Hucknall is a small village, which gives its name to the surrounding civil parish, in the Bolsover district of Derbyshire, England. It sits at the north end of the County of Derbyshire and is split into two halves by the M1 motorway
The parish also contains the hamlets of Rowthorne, Stainsby, Hardwick, Hardstoft, and Astwith and the two ex mining villages of Doe Lea and Bramley Vale
Local residents describe the settlement as the "smallest village in England", although as a village is not legally defined in England, this is not a provable claim – many would refer to it as a hamlet. The philosopher Thomas Hobbes was interred within Ault Hucknall’s St. John the Baptist Church following his death in 1679
In Ault Hucknall, as in most communities, the oldest surviving building is the parish church. St John’s is unusual among Derbyshire churches in retaining features that date from the 11th century when architecture was still influenced by Anglo-Saxon traditions. The church has three compartments – a nave with a north aisle, a former chancel under a crossing tower, and a sanctuary (now the chancel).
Ault Hucknall church played an important role in the Hardwick Estate. All parishioners would have been expected to attend services weekly at Ault Hucknall church, which lay some distance from any of the villages in the parish
Elizabeth dowager countess of Shrewsbury (c.1521–1608), best known to history as `Bess of Hardwick', is probably the third most famous Englishwoman of her age after Queen Elizabeth herself and Mary Queen of Scots, with both of whom Bess had close links.
She was married four times, firstly to Robert Barley, secondly to the courtier Sir William Cavendish, thirdly to Sir William St Loe and lastly to George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury.
Bess amassed a large fortune from her four marriages which she invested in both re-building the Old Hall at and building the New Hall at Hardwick as well as acquiring substantial tracts of land in neighbouring regions.
Doe Lea was originally built for the growing mining community during the early part of the 20th century. The older terraced properties were demolished and have now been replaced by a large new housing development which has more than doubled the size of the original village.
The village is named after the River Doe Lea and has been described as a small linear village running alongside the A617 off Junction 29 of the M1 Motorway belonging to the District of Bolsover.
The residents of Bramley Vale and Doe Lea have seen major changes over the years particularly after the closure of local collieries.
There is now a large thriving industrial estate on the site of Glapwell Colliery
The re-invention of the Doe Lea Centre has been a major development and is at the hub of both the old village and the new housing development making it an ideal and welcoming place for old and new residents to get to know each other
The Parish of Ault Hucknall
MEETINGS OF AULT HUCKNALL PARISH COUNCIL
Parish Council Meetings are normally held on the second Tuesday of each month except for August.
The next meeting of Ault Hucknall Parish Council will be the Annual |Meeting and will be held on
Tuesday 12th May 2026 at 6:30 p.m.
at Doe Lea Centre, Mansfield Road, Doe Lea.