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Coton in the Elms is a village and parish in the English county of Derbyshire. A civil parish in the United Kingdom is a unit of local government. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland History The area that is now Derbyshire was first visited probably briefly by humans 200000 years ago during the Aveley Interglacial as evidenced by a Middle It is located five miles south of Burton upon Trent. Burton upon Trent, also known as Burton-on-Trent or simply Burton, is a large town straddling the River Trent in the east of Staffordshire,

South east of the village – at grid reference SK253144 – is Church Flatts Farm, a claimant to be the furthest point from the sea in Great Britain. The British national grid reference system is a system of geographic grid references commonly used in Great Britain, different from using Latitude and Longitude [1]. The precise location is Latitude: 52º 43. 6'N Longitude: 1º 37. 2'W and the nearest point was given as Fosdyke Wash, 113 km (70 miles) away in Lincolnshire.

'Coton Church'.
'Coton Church'[2].
'Shoulder of Mutton'.
'Shoulder of Mutton'[2].

History

Coton is mentioned over a thousand years ago when land was transferred to Wulfrige the Black in 942. [3] It is also on the salt route known as Walton Way which starts in nearby Walton-on-Trent. Walton-on-Trent is a parish and village in the National Forest that is just within South Derbyshire. [4]

Coton in the Elms is mentioned in the Domesday book where it is then spelt Cotes. The Domesday Book (ˈduːmzdeɪ bʊk also known as Domesday, or Book of Winchester) was the record of the great survey The book says [5] under the title of “The lands of the Abbey of Burton[6]

"In Coton in the Elms Ælfgar had two carucates of land to the geld. Burton upon Trent Abbey in Staffordshire, England, was originally founded in the 7th or 9th century by St Modwen or Modwena and later refounded There is land for three ploughs. Now the abbot has it of the king. There are now one plough in demesne and six villans and three bordars having two ploughs. TRE[7] worth 40 shillings now 30 shillings. "

References


  1. ^ BBC report centre of England
  2. ^ a b Image from Wikimedia Commons June 2007
  3. ^ Derbyshire UK
  4. ^ Salt Ways
  5. ^ Domesday Book: A Complete Translation. London: Penguin, 2003. ISBN 0-14-143994-7 p. 744
  6. ^ The Abbey of Burton held a considerable number of manors including several in Derbyshire given to it by the King. William I of England ( 1027 His reign which brought Norman culture to England had an enormous impact on the subsequent course of England in the Middle Ages These included obviously Coton in the Elms, but also included lands in Stapenhill, Caldwell, Mickleover and Appleby Magna. Stapenhill is an area and Civil parish in Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire in the UK]] Mickleover is located two miles (3 km west of the city centre and is the most westerly Village of the City of Derby in the United Kingdom. Appleby Magna is a village and Civil parish in the North West Leicestershire district of Leicestershire, England.
  7. ^ TRE in Latin is Tempore Regis Edwardi. Latin ( lingua Latīna, laˈtiːna is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. This means in the time of King Edward before the Battle of Hastings. King Edward the Confessor (c 1003 &ndash 5 January 1066 son of Ethelred the Unready, was the penultimate Anglo-Saxon King of England and the last The Battle of Hastings was the decisive Norman victory in the Norman Conquest of England.

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