Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for COTHAM

COTHAM, a parish in Newark district, Notts; on the river Devon, near the meeting-point of Notts, Lincoln, and Leicester, 4¾ miles W by S of Claypole r. station, and 4¾ S of Newark. . Post town, Newark. Acres, 1, 210. Real property, £1, 819. Pop., 95. Houses, 22. The property is all in one estate. The living is a donative curacy in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £35. Patron, the Duke of Portland. The church is good.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Cotham CP/AP       Newark RegD/PLU       Nottinghamshire AncC
Place: Cotham

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