Cottam
Cottam is a village and civil parish in Nottinghamshire 8 miles east of Retford within the Bassetlaw district. The name is pronounced 'Cotum' locally. The population of the civil parish in the 2011 Census was given as 108, this fell to 97 in 2021.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Hamlet with 97 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Nottinghamshire, UK
- Also known as: “Cottam, Nottinghamshire” and “Cottom”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Cottam power stations and Torksey Castle.
Cottam power stations
Photo: Richard Croft, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Cottam power stations were a pair of power stations on over 620 acres of mainly arable land situated at the eastern edge of Nottinghamshire on the west bank of the River Trent at Cottam near Retford.
Torksey Castle
Ruins
Photo: Richard Croft, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Torksey Castle is an Elizabethan manor house located in the village of Torksey on the east bank of the River Trent in Lincolnshire, England. It is 12 miles northwest of Lincoln on the A156 road.
Sundown Adventureland
Theme park
Sundown Adventureland is a children's theme park in Rampton, Nottinghamshire, UK. It originally opened as a farmyard in 1968 and is owned by the Rhodes family. As of 2020, it has over 30 rides and attractions. Sundown Adventureland is situated 1½ miles west of Cottam.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Coates and Littleborough.
Coates
Hamlet
Coates is a hamlet in Nottinghamshire, England. It is located 8 miles south of Gainsborough. on the west bank of the River Trent. The hamlet is within the North Leverton with Habblesthorpe civil parish.
Littleborough
Hamlet
Photo: Richard Croft, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Littleborough is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Sturton le Steeple, in the Bassetlaw district, in the county of Nottinghamshire, England. Littleborough is situated 1½ miles north of Cottam.
Church Laneham
Hamlet
Photo: Katy Walters, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Church Laneham is a hamlet in Nottinghamshire, England. It is located 9 miles east of Retford, on the west bank of the tidal section of the River Trent. Church Laneham is situated 2 miles south of Cottam.
Cottam
- Categories: village, civil parish, and locality
- Location: Rampton, Bassetlaw, Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.31094° or 53° 18′ 39″ northLongitude
-0.77265° or 0° 46′ 22″ westPopulation
97Elevation
20 feet (6 metres)Open location code
9C5X866G+9WOpenStreetMap ID
node 243891700OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletGeoNames ID
2652270Wikidata ID
Q5175559
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Turkish—“Cottam” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Cottam (parokya)”
- Cebuano: “Cottam”
- Dutch: “Cottam, Nottinghamshire”
- French: “Cottam”
- Irish: “Cottam”
- Ladin: “Cottam”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Cottam”
- Polish: “Cottam (Nottinghamshire)”
- Polish: “Cottam”
- Swedish: “Cottam (parish)”
- Swedish: “Cottam, Nottinghamshire”
- Turkish: “Cottam, Nottinghamshire”
- “Cottam”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Cottam Development Centre and Torksey Island.
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