Huthwaite

infobox UK place
official_name = Huthwaite
os_grid_reference = SK468588
population = 7,500
shire_district = Ashfield
shire_county = Nottinghamshire
region = East Midlands
country = England
latitude = 53.125
longitude = -1.301
map_type = Nottinghamshire
static_

static_image_caption=Huthwaite.
post_town = SUTTON-IN-ASHFIELD
postcode_district = NG17
postcode_area = NG
dial_code = 01623
constituency_westminster = Ashfield

Huthwaite is a small village in Nottinghamshire, England, located to the west of Mansfield, close to the Derbyshire border. Before 1907 the village was known as Hucknall-under-Huthwaite and also Dirty Hucknall.

The name Huthwaite is derived from Old English plus Norse elements--Hoh is from a Norse word for a hill and Thwaite means a clearing -so we literally have a clearing on a hill spur. The former Hucknall element refers to Hucca's heath or angle of land and is shared with the present day Hucknall near Nottingham and Ault Hucknall in Derbyshire.

The population in 1800 was about 500 but soon started to grow with the opening of Hucknall Colliery, a drift mine at the bottom of Blackwell Road. The "Miners Arms" public house is believed to have been the manager's cottage. This mine was worked for around 50 years. It closed due to flooding. In 1877 a new mine called New Hucknall Colliery was opened which employed 500 people. By 1881 the population of the village had grown to over 2000. By 1912 the workforce had increased to over 1,300 but the main industry in the village had become the manufacture of hosiery products.

Today in the village only a handful of people are employed, due to the closure of the majority of mines in the area which included New Hucknall Colliery in the early 1980s. The majority of the hosiery jobs have gone abroad leaving Huthwaite with a large unemployment problem. Most who are currently employed travel out of the village to work despite there being a large industrial estate on the village doorstep.

Huthwaite used to have numerous shops such as groceries, butchers and hardware but in the present day the only major retailer is the local Co-op found in the centre of the village, 90% of the other shops are now used as takeaways with cuisine from almost all corners of the earth [http://www.oldnotts.co.uk/sutton/huthwaite/index.htm]

ee also

*All Saints' Church, Huthwaite

External links

* [http://www.huthwaite-online.net Huthwaite Online]

* [http://www.ashfield-springs.com employer in Huthwaite]