Ancient limestone walls and the weathered spire of St. John the Baptist Church define the quiet elevation of Ault Hucknall. It lies 3.2 miles south of Bolsover (from Bolsover: bearing 188°T, OS grid SK 466 652), and is situated south-south-east of Doe Lea village. The landscape here holds a stillness that seems to gather in the hollows, where the air tastes faintly of distant coal seams and damp earth. To the south, the sprawling grounds of Hardwick Park stretch toward the horizon, their vast, managed woods providing a sharp contrast to the more rugged terrain of Broadoak Hill nearby. Ault Hucknall remains a place of singular gravity, anchored by the presence of Thomas Hobbes, the philosopher whose bones rest within the parish church walls. The light across these fields often catches the grey stone with a clarity that renders the surrounding pastureland unusually vivid. Time moves differently here, measured not by the transit of modern traffic, but by the slow rotation of the seasons over the Derbyshire ridges. It is a corner of the world that keeps its own counsel, unbothered by the haste of the roads that cut through the valley below.
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This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Ault Hucknall, Derbyshire, England, including current conditions, a 24-hour hourly forecast, 7-day outlook, real-time aviation weather (METAR and TAF reports from the nearest reporting airport), precipitation radar and Meteosat satellite imagery. Public safety alerts are sourced from the Met Office National Severe Weather Warning Service (NSWWS), covering wind, rain, snow, ice, fog, thunderstorm and extreme heat warnings. Live river level data is sourced from the Environment Agency Flood Monitoring API. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Ault Hucknall includes coordinates 53.181913, -1.302902, in the county of Derbyshire, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of Ault Hucknall is available on the Ault Hucknall map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the Derbyshire weather hub.
Weather data is sourced from the Met Office and the open-source Open-Meteo API, whose ensemble includes the Met Office UKMO model. Severe weather warnings come from the Met Office National Severe Weather Warning Service (NSWWS). River level and tidal data are sourced from the Environment Agency Flood Monitoring and National Tide Gauge Network APIs. Aviation data is sourced from aviationweather.gov, with a modelled estimate shown where no reporting station is in range. Radar is provided by RainViewer and satellite imagery by EUMETSAT. All data updates automatically on every page visit.