In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Cottam like this:
COTTAM, a chapelry in South Leverton parish, Notts; on the Retford and Lincoln railway, near the river Trent, 7½ miles E by S of East Retford. It has a station on the railway; and its post town is South Leverton, under Retford. Acres, 900. Real property, £814. Pop., 86. Houses, 19. The property is much subdivided. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the vicarage of South Leverton, in the diocese of Lincoln. The church is small and plain.
Cottam through time
Cottam is now part of Bassetlaw district. Click here for graphs and data of how Bassetlaw has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Cottam itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Cottam, in Bassetlaw and Nottinghamshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/7355
Date accessed: 23rd April 2024
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