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Huthwaite
Location within Nottinghamshire
Population7,500 
OS grid reference SK468588
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Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town SUTTON-IN-ASHFIELD
Postcode district NG17
Dialling code 01623
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53°07′30″N1°18′04″W / 53.125°N 1.301°W / 53.125; -1.301

Huthwaite is a village in Nottinghamshire, England, located to the west of Mansfield, close to the Derbyshire boundary. It is in the Huthwaite and Brierley ward of Ashfield District Council. [1] Before 1907 the village was known as Hucknall-under-Huthwaite and also Dirty Hucknall. [2] [3]

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Derivation of name

The name Huthwaite is derived from Old English plus Norse elements—hoh is from haugr an Old Norse word for a hill and thwaite means a clearing -so, literally, 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.

Highest point

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View south-west from Strawberry Bank

Strawberry Bank (OS grid ref SK4659) is the disputed highest point in Nottinghamshire. It is believed to be the highest natural point at 203m. [4] However, Silverhill (SK4762) a mine spoil-heap on the site of the former Silverhill colliery is higher at 205m. [5] Herrod's Hill in Huthwaite (SK4660), Newtonwood Lane in Whiteborough (SK4560) and Derby Road in Annesley (SK5054) are also contenders for the "highest point in Nottinghamshire" record. [6]

Railways

The village was served by Whiteborough railway station on the former Teversal Branch Line. The nearest railway stations now are; Alfreton, Sutton Parkway, Mansfield, and Kirkby-in-Ashfield.


Former Industry and employment

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.

The closure of the majority of mines in the area, which included New Hucknall Colliery in the early 1980s, and the off shoring of hosiery jobs led to large amounts of unemployment. However today this has been largely rectified.

Former CWS Hosiery factory

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North Street shop Factory entrance
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CWS Hosiery Factory

This large factory occupied most of a rectangular site extending along North Street and High Street in Huthwaite. It was demolished with an outline planning consent for housing. [7]

When first built in 1907, it only extended along North Street, but was expanded in 1919 further down North Street. Various buildings had been added later, the most recent being the block along the north side of the site. In 1940, the British Royal Navy took over this 4-storey block to be the headquarters of their medical supply department for most of World War II. The architect of the 1907 building was Mr. F.E. Harris of Manchester and the contractor Mr. J. Dickinson of Derby.

The factory was built by the Cooperative Wholesale Society (CWS) for the manufacture of hosiery. It was sometimes referred to as the Belmont Clothing Factory, but "Belmont" may have been a clothing brand name, rather than the name of the building.

When first opened, it was expected to employ 400 people, but probably employed even more in its heyday. It was certainly the major employer of female labour in Huthwaite (New Hucknall Colliery being the major employee of males).

At some point, the hosiery factory became part of the Coats Viyella company. Coats Viyella was once one of the UK's leading textile businesses with retail (Jaeger), thread (Coats) and manufacturing (CV Clothing) businesses. Quantum Clothing Group was created as a management buy-out from Coats Viyella in December 2000. All the business's UK operations including warehousing, design, development, commercial and finance operated from this site in Huthwaite, together with a small office in Ireland. In July 2012, the Quantum Clothing Group was acquired by Japanese conglomerate Itochu Corp.

In April 2015, Ashfield District Council granted planning permission for the "demolition of the existing warehousing and factory complex". [8] [9] [10] [11]

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References

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  2. ↑ "A Hucknall History - Huthwaite Online".
  3. ↑ Mutschmann, Heinrich. The Place-Names of Nottinghamshire: Their Origin and Development (reprint 2012 ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 71. ISBN   978-1107665415 . Retrieved 16 October 2014.
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  7. ↑ Former Huthwaite factory site with planning for up to 90 homes still for sale Chad, 4 April 2019. Retrieved 15 November 2020
  8. ↑ "Huthwaite CWS Factory". Huthwaite Online. Retrieved 4 April 2013.
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