Coates, Cambridgeshire
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Coates is a small village close to the town of
Whittlesey Whittlesey (also Whittlesea) is a market town and civil parish in the Fenland District, Fenland district of Cambridgeshire, England. Whittlesey is east of Peterborough. The population of the parish was 17,667 at the 2021 Census. Toponymy W ...
, in the English county of
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. Coates has a shop which includes a post office.


Description

The village has two greens, North Green and South Green, which are divided by the busy A605 road, which runs through the village. There is a small shop which includes a post office. Coates has a church, a village hall and a primary school. Local businesses include a Chinese takeaway (Lucky House), two pubs (The Carpenters Arms and The Vine), a violin shop (Simon Watkin Violins), a manufacturer of blinds housed in the former chapel on North Green, and a number of farms. It also has a war memorial on North Green. The village has its own fishing lake. It was awarded Fenland's best kept village in 1993. It is famous for its Petanque competitions as people from different countries such as the Netherlands and Austria come to compete. There is a well supported traditional annual Village Show.


History

The origins of the name are from the word 'Cotes', a corruption of cottages. The village is referred to on ancient maps as 'Moreton's Cotes', with reference to Bishop Morton.


Churches

The
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church of the Holy Trinity was designed by architect James Wild in a brick interpretation of the Norman style and built in 1840. The
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church on the North Green opened in the early 1840s, but closed in August 2012 when it faced £100,000 refurbishment costs. It was subsequently bought by a company that manufactures blinds.


Recent events

Part of the filming for the 2007 war film ''Atonement'' starring
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was filmed outside Coates at the end of Eldernell Lane.


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Villages in Cambridgeshire Whittlesey {{Cambridgeshire-geo-stub