Cottingham, Northamptonshire

Description
Cottingham, a village and a parish in Northamptonshire. The village stands near the river Welland, 2 1/2 miles SW of Bockingham station on the L. & N.W.R., and 8^ N of Ket-tering. The parish includes also Middleton township, and it has a post and money order office under Uppingham; telegraph office, Bockingham. Acreage of Cottingham, 1726; population of the civil parish, 598 ; of the ecclesiastical, 949. Acreage of Middleton, 1666; population, 356. The living-is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough; gross yearly value, £480. Patron, Brasenose College, Oxford. The church, an ancient building of stone in the Early English and 1 Decorated styles, was restored in 1880. There are Congregational and Wesleyan Methodist chapels.