Publications
The Ticknall Preservation and Historical Society, a voluntary non-profit-making group, have available many publications devoted to the economic and social
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Local History
Ticknall Water Spouts
Visitors to Ticknall often ask about the cast iron water spouts that are seen in various places in the village.
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After 200 years, redundancy for Peter Marriott
Around three years ago the clock at St Georges Church Ticknall stopped chiming. After several attempts to rectify the problem
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Church Lane Dig, Nov 2014
Before our house was built some forty years ago there was, according to local history, evidence of a pottery on
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Ticknall Village Trail
The Trail starts from the car park at Ticknall Village Hall [35]. The Village Hall was built in 1992 and
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Knowle Hill
Like many properties rescued by the Landmark Trust, Knowle Hill is a fragment, an intriguing memory of something once larger
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Ticknall Tramway
We need someone to help here with a few words about how the Ticknall Tramway came to be built –
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Sgt John Smith VC
John Smith, the son of a shoemaker, was born in Ticknall in 1814, and lived in a cottage between 57
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History of Ticknall School
Anyone interested in the history of Ticknall School may be pleased to know that a large collection of information and
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Methodism – London to Ticknall
In the year 1739 the Hastings sisters of Ashby were in London for the season, along with many other members
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