Cotes

• The parish was in the Leake sub-district of the Loughborough Registration District.
   
• The 1851 Census for Leicestershire has been indexed by the Leicestershire & Rutland Family History Society. The whole index is available on microfiche. The society has also published it in print.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

• There appears to be no Anglican parish church in Cotes.
   

• The church would have been in the rural deanery of East Akeley.
   

• The parish was in the Leake sub-district of the Loughborough Registration District.
   
• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
   

Cotes is a village, a township and was, for a period, a parish. It is on the River Soar, 1 mile east of Loughborough. The parish covered 489 acres, most of which was pasture for sheep and cattle. The parish abuts Nottinghamshire county to the north.

If you are planning a visit:

• There is a bridge across the River Soar connected the village to Loughborough.
   
• By automobile, take the A60 north out of Loughborough toward Nottingham. The A60 passes over the bridge, above, into the village.
   
• There are photographs of the parish at Geograph.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Cotes to another place.

• This place was once full of market gardens and small farms.
   
• This place was abandoned in medieval times, probably because of plague. The Hall at Cotes remained for some time.
   
• A bridge across the River Soar connects the village to Loughborough. There was a minor battle at Cotes Bridge during the English Civil War.
   
• Jerry EVANS has a photograph of Cotes Mill on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2008.
   

• See our Maps page for additional resources.
   

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK555208 (Lat/Lon: 52.781845, -1.178799), Cotes which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Old Maps Online
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

• This place was an ancient township in Prestwold parish. It became a Civil Parish in 1866.
   
• Cotes appears to have reverted to a township by 1881.
   
• The parish was in the ancient East Goscote Hundred in the mid division of the county.
   

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Loughborough petty session hearings each Wednesday.
   
• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, this parish became part of the Loughborough Poor Law Union.
   

Year	Inhabitants
1871	59
1881	52
1891	54
1901	53
1911	57
1921	39
1931	42
1951	62
1961	62
1991	41

• In 1733, Joseph THOMPSON left £100 to generate interest which was used to educate 10 boys.
   
• A Public Elementary School was built here in 1846 on Far Street to hold 110 children.
   
• A Public Elementary School for infants was built here in 1838 on East Street to hold 94 infants.