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The Ancient Parish of COTTINGHAM
[Transcribed information mainly from the early 1820s]
"COTTINGHAM, a parish in the wapentake of Harthill; 6 miles NW. of Hull. This place is of considerable antiquity and ranks amongst the most pleasant, healthful, and populous villages, of the East Riding of Yorkshire. The population of the parish of Cottingham, amounts to 2,479." (There is further information for Cottingham)."DUNSWELL, 2 public houses in the parish of Cottingham, and wapentake of Harthill; 2¾ miles NE. of Cottingham, 4½ miles NNW. of Hull."
"HULL BANK, a hamlet in the township and parish of Cottingham; (the seat of Benjamin Blades Haworth, Esq.) 3 miles from Hull."
"NEWLAND, in the parish of Cottingham, and wapentake of Harthill; 3 miles ESE. of Cottingham, 2 miles NNW. of Hull. Here is a Methodist chapel, and a school with a small endowment."
"RAYWELL, (the seat of Daniel Sykes, Esq.) in the township and parish of Cottingham; 3¼ miles WSW. of Cottingham, 8 miles from South-Cave, 6 from Beverley, 7 from Hull."
"SPRING HEAD, in the parish of Cottingham, and wapentake of Harthill; (the seat of Richard Tottie, Esq.); 2 miles S. of Cottingham, 3 miles WNW. of Hull. There is here an excellent spring of water, from which the town of Hull is supplied."
"WILLERBY, in the parishes of Cottingham and Kirk Ella, and wapentakes of Harthill and Hullshire; ¾ mile N. of Kirk Ella, 6 miles WNW. of Hull."
[Description(s) edited mainly from various 19th century sources by Colin Hinson. ©2010]
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- Here are photographs of Cemeteries etc. in the parish:
- Hull Northern Cemetery Chapel, Hull.
- Hull Northern Cemetery, view at the entrance.
- Photographs of over 240 gravestones in a single section of Cottingham Cemetery, with a surname index.
- Here are photographs of Churches etc. in the parish:
- St. Mary's Church, Cottingham. This a very difficult church to photograph.
- St. Mary's Church - it is obviously more important to be able to see the trees than the church!
- Christ Church Free Evangelical Church, Cottingham.
- The Methodist Church, Cottingham. (The Church's website is here.)
- The Zion United Reformed Church, Cottingham. (The Church's website is here.)
- Holy Cross Roman Catholic Church, Cottingham. (The Church's website is here.)
- The Holy Name Roman Catholic Church, Inglemire. (The Church's website is here.)
- Internal view looking down the aisle
- St. Faith's Church, Dunswell. (The Church's website is here.)
- The ex-Bethel Chapel, Dunswell.
- Bricknell Avenue Methodist Church, Hull. (The Church's website is here.)
- Priory Baptist Church, Cottingham.
- The Church of the Ascension, Cottingham.
- St. Thomas's Church, Cottingham.
- Perth Street Methodist Church, Cottingham, also known as West Street Memorial Chapel, closed in April 2009.
- St. Cuthbert's Church, Cottingham.
- Princes Avenue Methodist Church, Cottingham.
- St. Vincent de Paul's R.C. Church, Cottingham. (The Church's website is here.)
- The Newland United Reformed Church, Cottingham.
- The Former Vineyard Church, Hull. This church is now Hull Vineyard Church, The Vineyard Centre, Vulcan Street, Hull, HU6 7PS
- Trinity Methodist Church, Cottingham.
- St. Ninian's United Reformed Church, Cottingham. (The Church's website is here.)
- The Catholic Chaplaincies, Cottingham.
- St. John's Church, Newland view 1. I was not impressed by this church. It's totally hidden from the road by the trees. Nice path made out of old gravestones - face down! (The Church's website is here.)
- St. John's Church, Newland view 2.
- Cottingham Road Baptist Church, Cottingham. (The Church's website is here.)
- Derringham Bank Methodist Church, Cottingham. (The Church's website is here.)
- The ex Primitive Methodist Connexion Chapel, Cottingham (The George Lamb Memorial Chapel).
- The Church of St. Alban the Martyr, Cottingham.
- The Clowes Memorial Methodist Church, Cottingham.
- Endike Lane Methodist Church, Cottingham. This church website moved to a site that is inaccessible to 40% of the population. I have therefore removed the link.
- Orchard Park Evangelical Church, Orchard Park Estate.
- St. Michael and All Angels Church, Orchard Park Estate.
- Transcript of the entry for Cottingham in the "Collections relative to Churches and Chapels".
- Transcript of the entry for Newland in the "Collections relative to Churches and Chapels".
- A transcript of Cottingham Congregational Church History
- The whereabouts and dates of the Registers etc. for the Parish of Cottingham.
- The List of Rectors in St. Mary's Church, Cottingham.
- Transcript of the entry of "professions and trades" in the Baines's Directory of 1823, of the East Riding.
- Transcript of the entry of "professions and trades" in the Pigot's 1829 Directory, Yorkshire section.
- Transcript of the entry of "professions and trades" in the Pigot's 1834 Directory, Yorkshire section.
- Transcript of the entry of "professions and trades" in the Bulmers Directory of 1892. of the East Riding.
- There is further information about this parish from the Pigot's 1829 Directory, Yorkshire section.
- There is further information about this parish from the Pigot's 1834 Directory, Yorkshire section.
- There is further information about this parish from the National Gazetteer 1868, Yorkshire extracts.
- There is further information about this parish from the Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1835, Yorkshire extracts.
- There is further information about this parish from the Stephen Whatley's Gazetteer 1750, Yorkshire extracts.
- There is further information about this parish from the Bulmer's 1892 History and Directory of the East Riding.
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Cottingham to another place.
- For a detailed map of this parish see this parish boundaries map.
- For a more detailed map of the parishes in the riding please see the Yorkshire parish maps page.
- For a more detailed map of the county please see the Yorkshire map page.
- Here is a map showing the wapentakes for the county.
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TA040325 (Lat/Lon: 53.778454, -0.423249), Cottingham 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.
- The War Memorial in Cottingham Churchyard.
- The War Memorial Plaques for World War II on the gates of the Memorial Park, Cottingham.
- The War Memorial Plaques for World War I on the gates of the Memorial Park, Cottingham.
- The following places are within the boundaries of this (ancient) parish, but I have no further information on them other than the Ordnance Survey Landranger Grid reference shown:
- (TA073324) Inglemire
- (TA056329) New Village
- (TA038335) The Lawns
- A transcription of the School Timetables, around 1902-3 in Adobe pdf format.
- This parish is covered by the following Society:
- The 1834 Electoral Roll for this parish