Cottingham (East Riding of Yorkshire)

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Cottingham
Coordinates 53 ° 47 ′  N , 0 ° 25 ′  W Coordinates: 53 ° 47 ′  N , 0 ° 25 ′  W
Cottingham (England)
Cottingham
Cottingham
Residents 17,263 (as of 2001)
administration
Post town COTTINGHAM
ZIP code section HU16
prefix 01482
Part of the country England
region Yorkshire and the Humber
Shire county East Riding of Yorkshire
District East Riding of Yorkshire
British Parliament Beverley and Holderness
Website: http://www.cottinghamuk.co.uk/

Cottingham is a municipality in the English unitary authority East Riding of Yorkshire . It borders directly to the north-west of Kingston upon Hull and forms a practically uniform urban area with the city. Cottingham had 17,263 inhabitants at the 2001 census.

geography

Neighboring towns and parishes are Cottinghams (clockwise starting west): Skidby , Rowley , Woodmansey , Hull and Willerby .

history

The name Cottingham means something like 'Homestead of Cotta's people'. "Cotta" is the name of an Anglo-Saxon tribal chief from the 5th century. The first written mention of the place took place during the reign of Edward the Confessor in the 11th century.

Parish Church of St Mary

After 1066 Wilhelm I took possession of the place and bequeathed it to Robert Front de Boeuf, one of his valued knights. In 1086, the year Domesday Book was published, the knight's descendants owned the place, a family named Stuteville .

In the year 1200 a royal permit to hold a market and to fortify Baynard Castle was granted by Johann Ohneland .

The place remained in the possession of the Stuteville family until 1349 and now belonged to Joan of Kent and her husband Edward of Woodstock . Baynard Castle remained their family seat until the reign of Henry VIII , but was then destroyed by fire. Parts of the castle wall near West End Road can still be seen today.

In the Middle Ages , the area of ​​today's high school was the hunting ground of the Prior of Beverley . Until the site was fenced in at the end of the 18th century, arable land still existed. In 1802, Cottingham Manor was built on the site in the style of the Georgian Age. During the Second World War , despite its deterioration, the building was used by the UK Department of Defense and remained in place until 1951. That year it was demolished and replaced with the new high school; further building blocks of the school followed in 1975.

Cottinghams parish church was built in Gothic style in 1272 and dedicated to the Virgin Mary .

A first school was built in Cottingham in 1666 to provide schooling for the poor. In 1783 a poor house was built next to the school; Boys and girls were taught separately.

Until 1857 Skidby was part of the Cottingham parish.

traffic

Cottingham Railway Station

Cottingham is located between the A164 ( Hessle - Driffield ) and the A1079 ( Hull - York ) and is therefore well connected to the national road network. The A63 ( Hull - Leeds ) and M62 provide access to the UK motorway network.

Cottingham is on the non-electrified Yorkshire Coast Line from Hull to Scarborough .

The nearest airport is Humberside Airport in North Lincolnshire , about 25 miles south of Cottingham.

Personalities

  • Jane Ellen Harrison (1850–1928), classical scholar, Graecist, religious historian, linguist and feminist
  • Brian Rix, Baron Rix (1924-2016), actor and member of the House of Lords
  • Bill Westwood (1925-1999), Bishop of Peterborough; lived in Cottingham after his retirement there until his death

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2001 Census: Key Statistics: Parish Headcounts: Area: Cottingham CP (Parish) . In: Neighborhood Statistics . Office for National Statistics . Retrieved May 15, 2008.
  2. ^ Bulmer's History and Directory of East Yorkshire (1892) . www.genuki.org.uk. Retrieved February 20, 2007.
  3. ^ The comprehensive gazetteer of the medieval fortifications and castles of England and Wales . Philip Davis. Archived from the original on November 27, 2011. Retrieved March 20, 2010.
  4. ↑ Google Maps
  5. ↑ Cottingham High School History . www.school-portal.co.uk. Archived from the original on March 13, 2012. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 1, 2009. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.school-portal.co.uk
  6. ^ A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848) . Institute of Historical Research. Retrieved August 1, 2009.

Web links

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