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Description in 1871:
"COTES, a township in Prestwold parish, Leicester; on the river Soar, near the Midland railway, 1 mile NE of Loughborough. Real property, £1,246. Pop., 55."
[John Marius WILSON's "Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales," 1870-1872]
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- The parish was in the Leake sub-district of the Loughborough Registration District.
- The 1851 Census for Leicestershire has been indexed by the Leicestershire & Rutland Family History Society. The whole index is available on microfiche. The society has also published it in print.
- The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
| Census Year | Piece No. |
|---|---|
| 1861 | R.G. 9 / 2277 |
| 1871 | R.G. 10 / 3260 |
| 1891 | R.G. 12 / 2518 |
- The parish was in the Leake sub-district of the Loughborough Registration District.
- Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
Cotes is a village, a township and was, for a period, a parish. It is on the River Soar, 1 mile east of Loughborough. The parish covered 489 acres, most of which was pasture for sheep and cattle. The parish abuts Nottinghamshire county to the north.
If you are planning a visit:
- There is a bridge across the River Soar connected the village to Loughborough.
- By automobile, take the A60 north out of Loughborough toward Nottingham. The A60 passes over the bridge, above, into the village.
- There are photographs of the parish at Geograph.
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Cotes to another place.
- This place was once full of market gardens and small farms.
- This place was abandoned in medieval times, probably because of plague. The Hall at Cotes remained for some time.
- A bridge across the River Soar connects the village to Loughborough. There was a minor battle at Cotes Bridge during the English Civil War.
- Jerry EVANS has a photograph of Cotes Mill on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2008.
- See our Maps page for additional resources.
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK555208 (Lat/Lon: 52.781845, -1.178799), Cotes which are provided by:
- OpenStreetMap
- Google Maps
- StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
- Bing (was Multimap)
- Old Maps Online
- National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
- Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
- English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
- Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
- GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)
- All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- This place was an ancient township in Prestwold parish. It became a Civil Parish in 1866.
- Cotes appears to have reverted to a township by 1881.
- The parish was in the ancient East Goscote Hundred in the mid division of the county.
- Bastardy cases would be heard in the Loughborough petty session hearings each Wednesday.
- As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, this parish became part of the Loughborough Poor Law Union.