Cottingham, Northamptonshire
Historical Description
Cottingham, a village and a parish in Northamptonshire. The village stands near the river Welland, 2½ miles SW of Bockingham station on the L. & N.W.R., and 8½ N of Ket-tering. The parish includes also Middleton township, and it has a post and money order office under Uppingham; telegraph office, Bockingham. Acreage of Cottingham, 1726; population of the civil parish, 598; of the ecclesiastical, 949. Acreage of Middleton, 1666; population, 356. The living-is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough; gross yearly value, £480. Patron, Brasenose College, Oxford. The church, an ancient building of stone in the Early English and 1 Decorated styles, was restored in 1880. There are Congregational and Wesleyan Methodist chapels.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Northamptonshire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Cottingham St. Mary Magdalene | |
Hundred | Corby | |
Poor Law union | Kettering |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The parish register dates from the year 1574.
Ancestry.co.uk, in association with the Northamptonshire Record Office, have images of the Parish Registers and Bishop's Transcripts for Northamptonshire online.
Churches
Church of England
St. Mary Magdalene (parish church)
The church of St. Mary Magdalene is an ancient structure of inferior oolite stone, in the Early English and Decorated styles, consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave, aisles, north transept, vestry and a western tower with pinnacles and an octagonal spire and containing 5 bells: one of the Decorated columns of the north aisle arcade has a remarkable capital, carved with figures of two knights in armour, a lady and a bishop or mitred abbot, all placed horizontally round it: in 1880 the church was thoroughly restored at a cost of over £2,600, the chancel being entirely rebuilt and fitted with oak seats, a vestry and transept added, the nave roof renewed, the pews removed and the nave supplied with chairs; a new organ was at the same time placed in the transept; and in 1890 a western porch was added: there are sittings for 385 persons.
Methodist
Wesleyan chapel
There is a Wesleyan Methodist chapel here, built in 1878.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Cottingham from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Cottingham (St. Mary Magdalene))
- Kelly's Directory of Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Northamptonshire, 1914
Land and Property
Bury House is an ancient Georgian mansion standing in small grounds adjoining the village.
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Northamptonshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Cottingham are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Northamptonshire papers online: