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OS grid reference
  
SK448718

Country
  
England

Post town
  
CHESTERFIELD

Local time
  
Tuesday 4:35 PM

District
  
North East Derbyshire

Region
  
East Midlands

Sovereign state
  
United Kingdom

Postcode district
  
S44 5xx

Shire county
  
Derbyshire

Dialling code
  
01246

Duckmanton

Weather
  
9°C, Wind S at 13 km/h, 59% Humidity

Air ambulance duckmanton chesterfield avi


Duckmanton is a village within the civil parish of Sutton-cum-Duckmanton, in North East Derbyshire, 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 4 miles (6.4 km) east from Chesterfield and 2.5 miles (4.0 km) west from Bolsover.

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Map of Duckmanton, Chesterfield, UK

In chronostratigraphy, the British sub-stage of the Carboniferous period, the 'Duckmantian' derives its name from the study of geological exposures in a railway cutting at Duckmanton.

Bolsover m1 duckmanton bridge being built 1960 s


History

Duckmanton is recorded in 1086 in the Domesday Book under the land of Ralph Fitzhubert.

In Duckmanton Leofnoth had four carucates of land and two bovates to the geld with land for five ploughs. There are eighteen paying tenants with five ploughs. There are eight acres of meadow and woodland pasture one league long by one league wide. TRE worth about four pounds now nineteen shillings. Geoffrey holds it.

References

Duckmanton Wikipedia