In an Agricultural Area you might expect the church to identify with its industry in addition to its traditional festivals.

Plough Sunday 2nd Sunday in January

3pm at Ault Hucknall: Dedication of our work around a plough with the ploughmen.

This year 9th January 2005 at 3pm

The year's service order.

Lent, Holy Week, Easter and Ascension

Services and study groups as announced in the Magazine and Weeksheet.

Rogation Sunday: 5th Sunday after Easter

6.00pm at Scarcliffe: Service in church and procession into the Village, Fields and Farms to bless the newly sown crops, the beasts and the meadows and water sources.

Harvest Festivals:

Ault Hucknall: Thursday 7.30pm before the last Sunday in September

On that 11am Sunday there is the children's offering of gifts.

Harvest Supper follows at the Hardwick Inn Monday 7pm with sale of offerings and the proceeds given to charity.

Palterton: 9.30am and 6pm (Sale of offerings afterwards) 1st Sunday of October preceded with a Harvest Supper at Hillstown Community Centre on Saturday night at 7pm

Scarcliffe: 2009:  2nd Sunday of October. 11am United Sung Communion and Harvest Meal .

Well Dressing

Ault Hucknall 3rd Saturday of July 2.30pm Service followed by Blessing of Wells. This ancient rite prays that the wells will not run dry in the high summer. This is a community art form with origins in pre-Christian times and is unique to Derbyshire. Large pictures and designs are made from natural materials on a wet clay surface. Derbyshire is famous for its pottery clay which is abundant for the well dressers' purpose.

   The well at Ault Hucknall (and at the Villages of Rowthorne and Glapwell) remain on display for 8 days. The money offerings put in the boxes beside each well are given to local charities.

Pictures above: The Bishop of Derby, The Right Reverend Jonathon S Bailey on July 17th 2004 after blessing the Rowthorne Well, and later the Children's Well at Glapwell was blessed.

All Souls Memorial

Ault Hucknall 6.30pm on the Sunday of, or preceding 2nd November (2009 on 1st November)

At this service, all the names of the departed are recalled, but by name, all those whose funerals have taken place in the time since the last service 12 months earlier. Other names of departed loved ones are also remembered by request.

We are giving thanks for the lives of loved ones and their achievements, seeking comfort in our grief, and proclaiming a Loving God who in Christ has shown He has the measure of death through  His victory on the Cross.

Advent and Christmas Carol Services

Christmas Anticipatory and Midnight Services as published in the Messenger and Weeksheet at the appropriate times.

Ault Hucknall choir gives a carol concert midweek about a week or so before Christmas.