Cottingham (East Riding of Yorkshire)
Cottingham is a parish in the English unitary authority East Riding of Yorkshire. It leads directly to the northwest of Kingston upon Hull and forms with the city practically a single urban area. Cottingham had 2001 17.263 inhabitants in the census in the year.
Geography
Neighboring cities and municipalities Cottingham are ( clockwise from the west): Skidby, Rowley, Woodmansey, Hull and Willerby.
History
The name Cottingham means as much as ' Homestead of Cotta 's people '. " Cotta " is the name of an Anglo-Saxon tribal leader from the 5th century. The first documentary mention of the place was at times the reign of Edward the Confessor in the 11th century.
After 1066 William I took the place owned and bequeathed it to Robert Front de Boeuf, one of its esteemed knight. In the Year of the Domesday Book in 1086 the descendants of the Knight owned the place, a family name Ville mare.
In 1200 a royal permission for holding a market and to secure the Castle Baynard by John Lackland was granted.
Until 1349 the city was in possession of the mare Ville family and now belonged to Joan of Kent and her husband Edward of Woodstock. Castle Baynard remained the family seat until the reign of Henry VIII, was then destroyed by fire. Parts of the castle wall near the West End Road can be seen even today.
In the Middle Ages the territory of the present High School was the hunting ground of the Prior of Beverley. Until the enclosure of the land end of the 18th century still existed arable farmland. 1802 was built on the site of the manor Cottingham in the style of the Georgian era. During the Second World War the building was used despite its decline from the Ministry of Defence of the United Kingdom and remained until 1951 exist. This year it was demolished and replaced by the new high school; Another building block of the school followed in 1975.
The parish church of Cottingham was built in 1272 in Gothic style and dedicated to the Virgin Mary.
The first school was built in 1666 in Cottingham, to enable the poor education. 1783 a poorhouse was built next to the school; Boys and girls were taught separately.
By 1857 Skidby was a part of the community Cottingham.
Traffic
Cottingham is situated between the A164 ( Hessle Driffield ) and the A1079 (Hull - York ) and is thus well connected to the national road network. About the A63 ( Leeds - Hull ) and M62 is connected to the motorway network in Britain.
Cottingham is on the non-electrified Yorkshire Coast Line from Hull to Scarborough.
The nearest airport is Humberside Airport in North Lincolnshire, about 40 km south of Cottingham.
Personalities
- Jane Ellen Harrison (1850-1928), scholar of antiquity, Gräzistin, religion historian activist, linguist and feminist
- Bill Westwood (1925-1999), Bishop of Peterborough lived in Cottingham after his retirement until his death just there.