CUCKNEY, or NORTON-CUCKNEY, a parish in
the Hatfield division of the wapentake of BASSETLAW,
county of NOTTINGHAM, 5 miles (S. S. W.) from
Worksop, comprising the townships of Holbeck, Langwith,
and Norton, and containing 1435 inhabitants.
The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry
of Nottingham, and diocese of York, rated in the king's
books at £9. 8. 6., endowed with £200 royal bounty,
and in the patronage of Earl Manvers. The church is
dedicated to St. Mary. A market and a fair were formerly
held, but both have been long discontinued.
There are some large worsted and cotton mills, which
give employment to a number of children from the
Foundling Hospital, in London. There is- also a mill
for polishing marble.