Cottam appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Toreshou in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Toreshou

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Cottam is not securely established from its modern form alone; like many settlement names in the North it likely combines an Old English or Old Norse personal name with a landscape term.

Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Cottam.

Listed Buildings Near Cottam

Historic England records 1 listed building within about a mile of Cottam. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

Cottam House - 0.23 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Cottam

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Cottam:

Cottam medieval settlement and cultivation terraces - 0.48 km

Cottam Today

Today Cottam lies within the administrative area of East Riding of Yorkshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 58 at the 2021 census. Nine and a half centuries separate that figure from the small rural community the Domesday survey recorded here in 1086.

Read more about modern Cottam on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:

Cowlam - 3.2 km W
Langtoft - 3.2 km N
Great Kendale - 4.5 km SE
Pockthorpe - 5.1 km E
Garton on the Wolds - 5.1 km S
Sledmere - 6.0 km W

Heritage Around Cottam

Photographs of churches, listed buildings and monuments in the vicinity, contributed by volunteers to the Geograph project and reused here under a Creative Commons licence.

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Cottam in the Domesday Book (1086)