Cossall
- Dave Scarle's Cossall Census Strays is a web page which no longer functions. You may be able to find his list via an internet search.
- The parish was in the Ilkeston sub-district of the Basford Registration District.
- The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
Census
Year |
Piece No. |
| 1861 |
R.G. 9 / 2437 |
| 1891 |
R.G. 12 / 2667 |
- The Church at Cossall is dedicated to Saint Catherine, a native of Alexandria. She was both beautiful and learned. The Emporer Maximain was very much attracted to her, but because she refused his attentions he ordered her to be tortured. She survived the torture but was then beheaded and buried on Mount Sinain.
- The church is small and stands at a tight bend in the hilltop village. The entrance to the churchyard is through a traditional lychgate built as a memorial in 1928.
- There is a photograph of the lychgate on Geo-graph, taken in 2008.
- The original nave and chancel were built in the 13th Century with arcades built later. The south side in the 14th Century but the north side appears to be part of the 1842 alterations. There were alterations in 1718, but there were major changes in 1842-43. It is recorded that the cost was borne by the vicar the Rev Francis Hewgill. Cossall was a parochial chapelry annexed to Wollaton and Rev Hewgill was Rector of Wollaton. The church was annexed to Wollaton until 1947. The tower is 13th Century and contains two bells in an old wooden frame, the larger of the bells is 22½" in diameter and bears the inscription T.TVRY. P SYSON. C.W. 1733. The smaller is 22" in diameter and has no inscription.
- There is a photograph of St. Catherine's Church at the Old Notts site.
- Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of St. Catherine's Church on Geo-graph, taken in 2007.
- There is a brief history of St. Catherine's Church at the Southwell Churches History Project site.
- The International Genealogical Index (IGI) includes records from this parish for the period 1744-1854.
- The parish was in the Ilkeston sub-district of the Basford Registration District.
- Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
Cossall is a small village just northeast of Nottinghamshire's border with Derbyshire, in the East Midlands region of England. It is west of Nottingham town, standing on the east bank of the River Ere Wash, just off the A6096 between Ilkeston and Kimberley; about one mile NNW of the Trowell M1 Service Station which is just to the south of Junction 26.
Visitors to Cossall may wih to stay in the Chatterley House Hotel on Coronation Road.
- Dave SCARLE's website used to have a History of Cossall, but the site has been discontinued.
- Cossall was the home of D. H. LAWRENCE's fiancée, Louise BURROWS..
- The national grid reference is SK 4842.
- You'll want an Ordnance Survey Explorer map, which has 2.5 inches to the mile scale.
- See our Maps page for additional resources.
- Near the lychgate in the churchyard at Cossall there is an obelisk, the 'Waterloo Memorial'. It was erected to the memory of John SHAW and Richard WAPLINGTON of the Life Guards who died there and Thomas WHEATLEY of the Light Dragoon Guards who also fought at Waterloo but survived to die an old man.
- Oxymoron has a photograph of the Waterloo Memorial on Geo-graph, taken in 2008.
- Dave SCARLE used to have a website with Cossall Memorial Inscriptions, but it no longer has the same web address.
- You can read the inscription on the Waterloo Memorial on Geo-graph, taken in 2008.
- You can read the inscription on the WWI War Memorial on another website.
Cossall derives from the old English combination of "Cott + halh" or "Nook of land of a man called Cott". The parish is mentioned twice in the Domesday Book (1086) as COTESHALE.
[A. D. Mills, "A Dictionary of English Place-Names," Oxford University Press, 1991]
- This place was an ancient Chapelry in Nottingham county and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
- This parish was in the Broxtowe Hundred or Wapentake.
- You may contact the local Cossall Parish Council regarding civic or political issues, but they are NOT staffed to assist you with family history searches.
- The parish had its own almshouse built near the church. The walls of that building still stand. These were originally for "4 single poor men over 60 years of age and 4 single poor women over 55 years of age". There was an endowment of a farm at Roston and local land rents to enable the inmates to be paid £10 per year and clothe them with a new grey cloth gown worth 3d per yard every 2 years, also to supply them with 5 shillings worth of coal yearly. Lord Middleton, who until 1926 resided at Wollaton Hall, is a trustee of the Cossall Almshouses.
- Gill has a photograph of the almshouse s on Geo-graph, taken in 2005.
- After the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, this parish became a part of the Basford Poor Law Union.
| Year |
Inhabitants |
| 1801 |
353 |
| 1811 |
328 |
| 1821 |
317 |
| 1831 |
341 |
| 1851 |
303 |
| 1871 |
235 |
| 1991 |
616 |
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[Last updated: 20-March-2013 - Louis R. Mills]
