Duckmanton
Duckmanton Workshops.
Duckmanton Location within Derbyshire
OS grid reference	SK448718
Civil parish	Sutton cum Duckmanton
District	North East Derbyshire
Shire county	Derbyshire
Region	East Midlands
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	CHESTERFIELD
Postcode district	S44
Dialling code	01246
Police	Derbyshire
Fire	Derbyshire
Ambulance	East Midlands
UK Parliament	Bolsover
List of places UK England Derbyshire 53°14′31″N 1°19′44″W / 53.242°N 1.329°W / 53.242; -1.329

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.^[1]

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.^[2]

History

Duckmanton is recorded in 1086 in the Domesday Book under the land of Ralph Fitzhubert.^[3]

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^[4] worth about four pounds now nineteen shillings. Geoffrey holds it.^[5]