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Cottam Well Dale
Cottam may refer to: Places *Cottam, East Riding of Yorkshire, England * Cottam, Lancashire, England *Cottam, Nottinghamshire, England * Cottam, Ontario, Canada People with the surname Cottam * Andy Cottam (born 1973), English cricketer * Bob Cottam (born 1944), English cricketer * Brad Cottam (born 1984), American football player * Francis Cottam (1900–1987), English cricketer * Harold Cottam (1891–1984), British wireless operator on the RMS ''Carpathia'' during the ''Titanic'' disaster * John Cottam (1867–1897), Australian cricketer * John Cottam (footballer) (born 1950), English footballer * Michael Cottam (born 1966), English cricketer * Nicholas Cottam (born 1951), British Army officer * S. E. Cottam (1863–1943), English poet and priest * Thomas Cottam (1549–1582), English Catholic priest and martyr Other uses * Cottam railway station, a disused station in Nottinghamshire, England * Cottam power stations, coal and gas powered electricity generating stations in N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cottam, East Riding Of Yorkshire
Cottam is a Hamlet (place), hamlet and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The hamlet is west of the B1249 road, B1249 Skipsea to Staxton road, and in the Yorkshire Wolds. It is north from the county town of Beverley, and approximately east from the village of Sledmere. The civil parish is formed by the hamlet of Cottam, and Cowlam to its north-west. According to the United Kingdom Census 2011, 2011 UK census, Cottam parish had a population of 108, an increase on the United Kingdom Census 2001, 2001 UK census figure of 74, which was the lowest population figure of any East Riding of Yorkshire civil parish in 2001. History According to ''A Dictionary of British Place Names'', Cottam derives from the Old English 'cot' (plural: cotum), meaning "a place at the cottages or huts". In the ''Domesday Book'' the Manorialism, manor is written as 'cottun' Cottam was in the Hundred (county subdivision), Hundred of Toreshou, of nine geld unitsâ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Cottam (footballer)
John Cottam (born 5 June 1950, Warsop) was an English professional footballer who played as a defender. He played in The Football League for five clubs and later became a manager in non–league football. Playing career Cottam began his career with Nottingham Forest, whom he signed professional forms with in April 1968. He made his debut in the 1970–71 season when the club were in The First Division. Apart from loan spells with Mansfield Town and Lincoln City, Cottam remained at Forest until August 1976, making nearly 100 league appearances in the process. Cottam then moved on to Chesterfield, where he played regularly for three years in Division Three. In July 1979 he moved to divisional rivals Chester for £12,500, making his debut in a Football League Cup tie against Walsall the following month. In his first season, he missed just one of Chester's 58 first-team gamesSumner (1997), stats section and helped the Blues reach the FA Cup fifth round. He remained a regular f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coatham
Coatham is an area of Redcar in the borough of Redcar and Cleveland and the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England. History There is reputed to be an entry in the Doomsday book – the first recorded reference to Coatham as "there is a Hamlet of Cotes (one-roomed cottages or shacks) on the beach where the people collect coal from boats from Hartlepool, to carry by pack animal to the Abbey at Guisborough for the heating for the monks there". Probably the people of the Hamlet of Cotes were taxed accordingly, and the place became known as "cote-ham" or similar? Coatham can be traced back to the 12th century, when "Roger son of William de Tocketts gave a salt-pan in 'Cotum' to Guisborough Priory." There was a significant port there, owned by the de Brus family in the 13th century. The weekly market of Kirkleatham parish was held in Coatham (possibly because of the presence of the port) and there was a three-day fair. These were chartered in 1257 by King Henry III Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RAF Cottam
Royal Air Force Cottam or more simply RAF Cottam is a former Royal Air Force satellite airfield near Cottam, East Riding of Yorkshire, Cottam in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England and north west of Driffield, East Riding of Yorkshire. The airfield was used only occasionally for flying, mostly being utilised as a bomb storage site. History Despite being built as a bomber airfield as a satellite to RAF Driffield, poor weather conditions meant it was never used as its intended use as operational airfield, though some flying did occur. The site was constructed with three runways measuring , , and . The airfield was used temporarily as a dispersal site in August 1940 after a devastating raid on RAF Driffield. An attack by up to 30 Junkers Ju 88, Ju 88's saw 169 bombs dropped, 13 personnel killed, 12 Whitley bombers destroyed, and as a result of the raid, Driffield was non-operational for the rest of 1940. Cottam's watch office was demolished in 1980. The airfield operated until J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cottam Power Stations
Cottam power station is a decommissioned coal-fired power station. The site extends over of mainly arable land and is situated at the eastern edge of Nottinghamshire on the west bank of the River Trent at Cottam near Retford. The larger coal-fired station, was decommissioned by EDF Energy in 2019 in line with the UK's goal to meet its zero-coal power generation by 2025. The smaller in-use station is Cottam Development Centre, a combined cycle gas turbine plant commissioned in 1999, with a generating capacity of 440 MW. This plant is owned by Uniper. The site is one of a number of power stations located along the Trent valley. The West Burton power stations are downstream and Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station is upstream. The decommissioned High Marnham Power Station was upstream. Under the Central Electricity Generating Board in 1981/82 Cottam power station was awarded the Christopher Hinton trophy in recognition of good housekeeping the award was presented by junior ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cottam Railway Station
Cottam railway station was a station in Cottam, Nottinghamshire, England which is now closed.British Railways Atlas.1947. p.16 Part of the route on which the station was located remained in use for freight trains serving Cottam power stations, with the final train running in September 2019. The line is now officially closed, and hasn't been used since then. The line through to Saxilby and Lincoln via Torksey __NOTOC__ Torksey is a small village in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 875. It is situated on the A156 road, south of Gainsborough and north-west of the city of L ... closed to passengers in November 1959. References Disused railway stations in Nottinghamshire Former Great Central Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1850 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1959 {{EastMidlands-railstation-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Cottam
Thomas Cottam (1549 – 30 May 1582) was an English Catholic priest and martyr from Lancashire, who was executed during the reign of Elizabeth I. Life Cottam was born to Protestant parents, Laurence Cottam of Dilworth and Anne Brewer, but was converted as an adult to Catholicism by Thomas Pound. He studied at Brasenose College, Oxford, and received his M.A. on 14 July 1572, before leaving for London, where he became master of a grammar school. It was there that he met Pound and decided to head to Douai to become a priest. He was ordained a deacon at Cambrai in December 1577 and, desiring to become a missionary to India, went to Rome and was received as a Jesuit novice at Sant' Andrea on 8 April 1579. That October he came down with a fever and was sent to Lyons to recuperate. The spy Sledd had been in Rome, and traveling with some Englishmen arrived in Lyon, where he made the acquaintance of Cottam. Discovering that Cottam intended to proceed to England, he made careful note o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Cottam
Major-General Nicholas Jeremy Cottam (born 17 February 1951) was a senior British Army officer who went on to be Military Secretary and thereafter Registrar of St Paul's Cathedral. Early life Cottam is the son of Brigadier Donald Cottam OBE. He was educated at Durham University, where he gained a degree in Modern History. Cottam was President of the Durham Union for Easter term of 1972. Military career Cottam was commissioned into the Royal Green Jackets in 1973. He became Commanding Officer of his Regiment and was deployed in Northern Ireland in the early 1990s being appointed to the OBE and mentioned in despatches for his service there. In 1994 he went to South Africa as part of a Commonwealth Peace Keeping Force. He became Director of Personnel Services in 2001 for the Army and went on to be General Officer Commanding 5th Infantry Division in 2003 and Military Secretary in 2005. In that role he increased the retirement age for officers in the Territorial Army to 60 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Cottam
Michael Cottam (born 23 September 1966) was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and right-arm medium-fast bowler who played for Devon. He was born in Southampton. Cottam, who represented three different Second XI teams between 1983 and 1986, and who represented Devon in the Minor Counties Championship in 1988, made a single List A appearance for the team, during the 1988 NatWest Trophy, against Nottinghamshire Nottinghamshire (; abbreviated Notts.) is a landlocked county in the East Midlands region of England, bordering South Yorkshire to the north-west, Lincolnshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south, and Derbyshire to the west. The traditi .... From the tailend, he did not bat in the match, but he took figures of 0–51 with the ball from twelve overs of bowling. External linksMichael Cottamat CricketArchive {{DEFAULTSORT:Cottam, Michael 1966 births Living people English cricketers Devon cricketers Cricketers from Southampton ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Cottam
John Thomas Cottam (5 September 1867 in Sydney, New South Wales – 30 January 1897 in Western Australia) was an Australian cricketer who played in one Test in 1887. Jack Cottam had played in only one first-class match – for New South Wales against the touring English cricket team, when he scored 29 and 14 not out – before making his Test debut a few days later in the Second Test against England at the Sydney Cricket Ground. Cottam made just four runs as Australia lost by 71 runs. Cottam's five other first-class matches came on New South Wales' tour of New Zealand in 1889–90, when he made three fifties including his highest score of 62, the only fifty in the match, when New South Wales beat Wellington. Cottam went to the goldfields at Coolgardie, Western Australia, near Kalgoorlie, where he died of typhoid fever, aged 29, in 1897. See also * List of New South Wales representative cricketers This is a list of male cricketers who have played for New South Wales in fir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harold Cottam
Harold Thomas Cottam (27 January 1891 – 30 May 1984) was a British wireless operator on the RMS ''Carpathia'' who fortuitously happened to receive the distress call from the sinking RMS ''Titanic'' on 15 April 1912. Cottam's decision to awaken Captain Arthur Henry Rostron and relay ''Titanic''s message in spite of the scepticism of the officer on watch allowed ''Carpathia'' to arrive at the scene hours before any other ship and is "credited with saving hundreds of lives." He was a personal friend of the ''Titanic'''s junior wireless operator and survivor Harold Bride. Early life and career Cottam was born on 27 January 1891 in Southwell, Nottinghamshire to William Cottam and his wife Jane. He had four younger brothers. At 17, Cottam left home to study eleven months at the British College of Telegraphy in London, becoming the school's youngest graduate in 1908. Afterward, he obtained a posting with the Marconi Company as second wireless operator on the RMS ''Empress of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
