Description
Cottam, a small village and a township in South Leverton parish, Notts, on the M.S. & L.R., near the river Trent, 7 1/4miles E by S of East Eetford, with a station on the railway, and a post office under Lincoln; money order office, Rampton; telegraph office, Sturton-le-Steeple. Acreage, 599 ; population, 81. The living is a vicarage, annexed to that of Littleborough, in the diocese of Southwell; joint gross value, £165. The church is small, and has a Norman doorway. There is also a Wesleyan chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
