Nottinghamshire

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Cotham

"Cotham is a small village on the east bank of the Devon, 4 miles south of Newark. It contains 98 inhabitants, and 1,210 acres of land valued at £1,700, all belonging to the Duke of Portland, who is the impropriator and patron of the church, which is dedicated to St Michael. The church was partly rebuilt, a porch being added, and new pewed in 1832. The living is a donative valued at £35, and is now enjoyed by the Rev. John Ince Maltby of Shelton. This place was long the seat of the knightly fanilies of Leek and Markham, but it is now divided into three farms, occupied by John Booth, William Hodgkinson and Thomas Rose, the latter of whom resides at Cotham Lodge, a pleasant residence, commanding fine prospects."
[White's "Directory of Nottinghamshire," 1853]

Census

• The parish was in the Bennington sub-district of the Newark Registration District.
  
  
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
  
  

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Civil Registration

• The parish was in the Bennington sub-district of the Newark Registration District.
  
  
• Civil Registration started in July, 1837.
  
  

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Maps

• The national grid reference is SK 7947.
  
  
• You'll want an Ordinance Survey Explorer map, which has 2.5 inches to the mile scale.
  
  
• See our Maps page for additional resources.
  
  

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Politics and Government

• The parish was in the ancient Newark Wapentake (Hundred) in the eastern division of the county.
  
  

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• After the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, the parish became part of the Newark Poor Law Union.
  
  

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Population

Year	Inhabitants
1801	77
1851	87
1881	130
1891	115
1901	113

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