Coton, a parish in Cambridgeshire, 3 miles W of Cambridge. It has a post office under Cambridge; money order and telegraph office, Cambridge. Acreage, 970; population, 263. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely; gross yearly value, £80. Patron, St Catharine's College, Cambridge. The church is Norman and Early English; consists of nave, aisles, chancel, and two porches, with tower and spire; and has the monument of Andrew Downes, the translator of the Apocrypha.