Place:Aslockton, Nottinghamshire, England

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Aslockton is a village and civil parish twelve miles (19 km) east of Nottingham, England and two miles east of Bingham on the north bank of the River Smite opposite Whatton. It has a population of around 1,000 [1].

The name of the village comes from the Danish and Saxon name Haslachstone and became Aslacton before becoming the modern Aslockton. Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury 1533–1553, was born in Aslockton and spent his childhood in a cottage that still exists on Abbey Lane. The village school, opened in 1968, is named in his honour.

Despite the village's small size, until it recently it was the site of two pubs: the Old Greyhound and the Cranmer Arms. The Old Greyhound closed in May 2007, and the new owners have submitted a planning application [2] to turn the building into a restaurant. The village also has a small shop, which hosts a post office and a local dry cleaning service.

The Aslockton windmill and bakehouse were situated on Mill Lane. The mill was a wooden postmill, weatherboarded, on a brick roundhouse, with 4 single patent sails. The miller and baker in 1864 was Job Heathcote.

The village train station runs a few daily services to nearby Nottingham and Grantham, and a rural bus service operates to Bingham and Bottesford for onward bus or train connections.

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