AULT-HUCKNALL, a parish in the hundred of SCARSDALE, county of DERBY, 5 miles (N. W. by W.) from Mansfield, containing, with the township of Stainsby, and a part of the township of Glapwell, 605 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Derby, and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, rated in1 the king's books at £6. 0. 5., endowed with £ 200 private benefaction, £ 200 royal bounty, and £800 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Duke of Devonshire. At Hardwicke, in this parish, there is a school for the education of poor children, towards the support of which Thomas Whitehead, in 1729, bequeathed a house and land producing £ 23. 15. per annum; it is also endowed with property in the parish of Edensor.