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Name | Cottingham |
Type | Ancient parish, Civil parish |
Coordinates | 52.5059°N 0.7565°W |
Located in | Northamptonshire, England |
See also | Corby Hundred, Northamptonshire, England | hundred in which it was located | | Kettering Rural, Northamptonshire, England | rural district in which it was located 1894-1974 | | Corby District, Northamptonshire, England | district municipality covering the area 1974-2021 | | North Northamptonshire, Northamptonshire, England | unitary authority covering the area since April 2021 |
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Cottingham is a village and civil parish in Northamptonshire in the English Midlands that can trace its history back to Roman times. "Cotingeham" is listed in the Domesday Book and is also mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. It is located northwest of Corby and since 1974 has been administered as part of that town's borough. At the time of the 2001 census, Cottingham parish's population was 912 people, reducing slightly to 906 at the 2011 census.
Since April 2021 Cottingham and Corby are now within the North Northamptonshire unitary authority and the Borough of Corby has ceased to exist.
The following description from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72 is provided by the website A Vision of Britain Through Time (University of Portsmouth Department of Geography).
- "COTTINGHAM, a village and a parish in Kettering [registration] district, Northampton. The village stands near the river Welland, and the boundaries with Leicester and Rutland, 2½ miles SW of Rockingham [railway] station, and 8¼ N of Kettering. The parish includes also Middleton township; and its post town is Rockingham, under Leicester. Acres: 3,286. Real property: £6,780. Population: 1,139. Houses: 240.
- "The property is subdivided. Cottingham House is a chief residence. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough. Value: £426. Patron: Brazenose College, Oxford. The church is good; and there are chapels for Independents and Wesleyans, a national school, and charities £43."
In 1935 Cottingham absorbed the thinly populated neighbouring parish of Beanfield Lawns, but Middleton became a separate civil parish.
Research Tips
A Vision of Britain through Time
A Vision of Britain through Time describes parishes and former parishes from a gazetteer of 1871; provides an outline of the historic administration links for parishes. The OS map of 1900, the OS map of 1935, and the OS map of 1965 all show parish boundaries and settlements within parishes. These maps are all expandable to show individual parishes and are useful for inspecting changes occuring over the 20th century.
Archive Centres
- Northamptonshire Archives is located at Wootton Hall Park, Northampton, NN4 8BQ, Telephone from the UK: 01604 767562 (from overseas replace the "01" with "44"). The website gives opening times and facilities available.
- Northampton Central Library, Abington Street, Northampton, NN1 2BA (Telephone from the UK: 01604 26771 (from overseas replace the "01" with "44").
Northamptonshire Family History Society
The NFHS website describes the activities of the society. The Society is presently transcribing the deposited Marriage Registers for the period 1754 through 1837. These transcriptions may provide more details than can be found on other databases where subscriptions are charged.
GENUKI
The main GENUKI page for Northamptonshire lists a number of topics for research.
Victoria County History
- the Victoria County History of Northamptonshire produced online by British History Online (founded by the Institute of Historical Research and the History of Parliament Trust in 2003) contains only some of the Hundreds of Northamptonshire in its collection. Articles that do exist will be referenced under the relevant hundred and parish.
Online Databases
FindMyPast includes (list checked July 2018)
- Northamptonshire Parish Records (Baptisms, Marriages, Burials, and Probate Index)
- Northamptonshire Freeholders 1795-1797
- Northamptonshire Hearth Tax, 1674
- Northamptonshire Military Tribunals 1916-1918
- Northamptonshire Militia Lists 1771
- Northamptonshire, Northampton General Hospital Admissions 1774-1846
While Ancestry offers (list checked July 2018)
- Census & Voter Lists 1841-1911.
- Northamptonshire Birth, Marriage & Death
- Northamptonshire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1532-1812
- Northamptonshire, England, Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1912
- Northamptonshire, England, Church of England Marriages, 1754-1912
- Northamptonshire, England, Church of England Burials, 1813-1912
- Other Birth, Marriage & Death collections related to Northamptonshire. (32)
- Northamptonshire, England, Church of England Confirmations, 1870-1911
- Other Schools, Directories & Church Histories collections related to Northamptonshire. (34)
- A calendar of wills relating to the counties of Northampton and Rutland : proved in the court of the archdeacon of Northampton
- Other Wills, Probates, Land, Tax & Criminal collections related to Northamptonshire. (23)
- Reference, Dictionaries & Almanacs collections related to Northamptonshire. (21)
- Maps, Atlases & Gazetteers collections related to Northamptonshire. (7)
- Northamptonshire Stories, Memories & Histories
- Genealogy of the descendants of Thomas French: who came to America from Nether Heyford, Northamptonshire, England and settled
- Works of Reverend James Hervey, 1713-1758
- The Orlebar Chronicles in Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire, 1553-1733, or the Children of the Manorhouse
- Descendents of Thomas Chichele of Higham-Ferrers, Northampton, England
- Rockingham Castle and the Watsons
- Other Northamptonshire Stories, Memories & Histories (14)
FamilySearch also has an extensive database online. It is free, but may not always provide the original images provided by the services one pays for.
Categories: Northamptonshire, England | Cottingham, Northamptonshire, England | Corby Hundred, Northamptonshire, England | Kettering Rural, Northamptonshire, England | Corby District, Northamptonshire, England | North Northamptonshire, Northamptonshire, England
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