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Cottam

"Cottam is a township and chapelry at the east end of the parish [of South Leverton], on an eminence overlooking the vale of the Trent, 7 miles east by south from Retford, and 2½ from South Leverton. The small chapel is dedicated to the Holy Trinity, in which devine service is performed once a fortnight."
[White's "Directory of Nottinghamshire," 1853]

Note: There is a Cottam parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire.

Census

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

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Church History

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to the Holy Trinity.
  
  
• The chapel is a small and simple structure.
  
  
• The date of construction is "early Norman".
  
  
• The church seats 76 people.
  
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1772.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Tuxford.
  
  
• The Wesleyan Methodists built a chapel here about 1813.
  
  

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Civil Registration

• The parish was in the East Retford sub-district of the East Retford Registration District.
  
  
• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
  
  

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Description and Travel

Cottam is a parish, a township and a village near the River Trent on the border with Lincolnshire in the northern part of Nottinghamshire. The parish lies 8 miles east of East Retford and 127 miles north of London. The parish covers 600 acres.

If you are planning a visit:

• By boat, float down the River Trent from Newark-on-Trent. After going under the A57 roadway, you only have to drift 3 miles to find Cottam on your left, just after the river loops back on itself around a small lake.
  
  

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Maps

• The national grid reference is SK 8179.
  
  
• 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

• This place was an ancient chapelry in South Leverton parish, but became its own Civil Parish in December 1866.
  
  
• The parish was in the ancient Bassetlaw Wapentake (Hundred) in the northern division of the county.
  
  
• In March, 1885, this parish was reduced by "Westbrecks and The Clams" and the 301 acres given to South Leverton Civil Parish.
  
  

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• After the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, this parish became a part of the East Retford Poor Law Union.
  
  

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Population

Year	Population
1861	86
1871	90
1881	107
1891	81
1901	88
1911	102
1921	103
1931	101

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