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For the village near Darlington, see Coatham Mundeville.
Coordinates: 54°37′01″N 1°05′04″W / 54.61686°N 1.08448°W
Coatham 
Christ Church, parish church of Coatham and Dormanstown
Coatham
Coatham shown within North YorkshireOS grid reference NZ592250 Unitary authority Redcar and Cleveland Ceremonial county North Yorkshire Region North East Country England Sovereign state United Kingdom Post town REDCAR Postcode district TS10 Police Cleveland Fire Cleveland Ambulance North East EU Parliament North East England List of places: UK • England • Yorkshire Coatham is a place in the borough of Redcar and Cleveland and the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England.
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History
Coatham began as a market village in the 14th century to the smaller adjacent fishing port of Redcar but as their populations grew from the 1850s, the dividing space narrowed. Though Coatham is now only a mile-wide district in the town of Redcar, the need for definition was strong enough to warrant the western boundary being marked by a fence which ran the length of West Dyke Road and West Terrace. Coatham comprises the remaining coastal land north of the railway line from West Dyke Road to Warrenby in the west.
Landmarks
Coatham Marsh
The majority of modern Coatham is Victorian housing, most notably at its northern tip by the Coatham Hotel built in 1860. A small boating lake, leisure centre, arcade complex and caravan park now occupies the remainder of Coatham's coast. To the east, the Tees Valley Wildlife Trust's Coatham Marsh Nature Reserve hosts 134 acres (0.54 km2) of ancient Marsh and grassland.
Future development
Since the mid-1990s political debate has been generated amongst Coatham's five thousand residents as to the future of the last undeveloped section of Coatham's coastal land known as Coatham Common/Coatham Enclosure - for the last 25 years used as a golf course and local recreation area. Residents are objecting at losing open space to the council's proposed housing and leisure development planned to revive the tourist industry. The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom announced on 3 March 2010 that Redcar Council must register the land as a Village Green.[1]
Notable residents
Coatham is the town where Jane Gardam, twice winner of the Whitbread Prize, was brought up and where some of her novels are set.
References
- ^ "Press Release" (PDF). The Supreme Court. 2010-03-03. http://www.supremecourt.gov.uk/docs/UKSC_2009_0167_ps.pdf. Retrieved 2010-03-04.
External links
- Coatham Marsh Wildlife Images
- A Redcar History site
- Communigate - Coatham to Warrenby
- National Statistics - Coatham Ward 2001
- Tees Valley Wildlife Trust
- Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council - Coatham Enclosure
Coastal settlements of North Yorkshire Anticlockwise
Seaton Carew, County Durham
(See also Warrenby and South Gare)Coatham
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RedcarLocations in the Unitary authority of Redcar and Cleveland Towns Villages Boosbeck • Boulby • Brotton • Carlin How • Charltons • Coatham • Dormanstown • Dunsdale • Easington • Handale • Kilton • Kilton Thorpe • Kirkleatham • Lazenby • Lingdale • Liverton • Margrove Park • Marske-by-the-Sea • Moorsholm • New Marske • Newton under Roseberry • Normanby • North Skelton • Ormesby • Pinchinthorpe • Scaling • Skinningrove • Stanghow • Teesville • Upleatham • Warrenby • Wilton • YearbyParish & Town Councils See also Cleveland • Greater Eston • Langbaurgh (wapentake) • Langbaurgh East • Eston Nab • Schools in Redcar and Cleveland • South Gare • Teesport • Teesside • Tees Valley
Categories:- Redcar and Cleveland
- Locations in the Tees Valley
- Villages in North Yorkshire
- Populated coastal places in North Yorkshire
- Redcar and Cleveland geography stubs
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