Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for COTES

COTES, a township and a chapelry in Eccleshall parish, Stafford. The township lies adjacent to the North-western railway, about a mile from Standon-Bridge station, and 4¼ NNE of Eccleshall. Real property, £1, 761. Pop., 288. Houses, 66. The chapelry bears the name of Cotes-Heath; and was constituted in 1844. Post town, Standon, under Eccleshall. Pop., 479. Houses, 101. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £150.* Patron, the Vicar of Eccles hall.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a township and a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Eccleshall CP/AP       Staffordshire AncC
Place: Cotes

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