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Coordinates: 52°30′05″N 0°27′54″W / 52.5015°N 0.4649°W
Cotterstock 
Cotterstock
Cotterstock shown within NorthamptonshirePopulation 149 OS grid reference TL0490 District East Northamptonshire Shire county Northamptonshire Region East Midlands Country England Sovereign state United Kingdom Post town Peterborough Postcode district PE8 Dialling code 01832 Police Northamptonshire Fire Northamptonshire Ambulance East Midlands EU Parliament East Midlands UK Parliament Corby List of places: UK • England • Northamptonshire Cotterstock is a village and civil parish in East Northamptonshire, England.
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Geography
Cotterstock is on the banks of the River Nene, which flows through the town of Peterborough 16 miles (25 km) to the north east and empties into the North Sea in The Wash. The nearest larger town is Oundle 2½ miles (4 km) to the south west.
Demography
In 1991 the population of Cotterstock parish was 119, with a dwelling stock of 50. At the time of the 2001 census, the parish population was 149 people.[1]
History
Cotterstock was recorded in the Domesday Book as Codestoche, the name probably deriving from Old English "corther-stoc" (dairy farm).
In the summer of 1736 a Romano-British villa was discovered when tesserae from a large mosaic pavement were uncovered during ploughing. The villa was relocated by aerial photography during the extremely dry summer of 1976, when parch marks of buried walls were recorded spread across three fields. A geophysical survey undertaken to accurately locate and amplify the aerial photographic information was carried out over a total of ten days in 1992 and 1993. A total of 19,140 soil resistance values was recorded at one-metre intervals within a grid composed of 20-metre squares.[2]
The Church of St Andrew is located to the east of the village, adjacent to the River Nene; it dates from the late 12th century. The main period of construction was in the 13th and 14th centuries and the building was restored and extended in 1876. Cotterstock Hall was built in 1658 with alterations in the early 18th century and a main staircase added in the 19th century. The poet and playwright John Dryden was a frequent visitor and is thought to have stayed in the south-west attic room at the Hall, visiting relatives, the last of whom, Rev Sir George Booth, died in 1797. Also of interest is the Old Mill which was built during the early 19th century. Cotterstock parish contains 20 entries on the statutory list of buildings of special architectural or historic interest, 16 of which are within the Conservation Area covering the eastern part of the village around St Andrew's Church and Cotterstock Hall. Tree Preservation Orders have been made on trees in and around the village.
Cotterstock was the birthplace of John Graves Simcoe, the first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada from 1791–1796 and founder of Toronto, who was born here on February 25, 1752.
Infrastructure
The village consists of a single street with Cotterstock Hall located in the centre and St Andrew’s Church in the east. Cotterstock has a village hall.
References
- ^ Office for National Statistics: Cotterstock CP: Parish headcounts. Retrieved 8 November 2009
- ^ The villa was published by Stephen G. Upex, "The Roman Villa at Cotterstock, Northamptonshire" Britannia 32 (2001):57-91).
External links
Categories:- Villages in Northamptonshire
- Oundle
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