Description: Preserving the history of the village of Cottingham, Leics, and painting a picture of village life in years gone by. Who lived here? What jobs did people do? How did they live?
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cottinghamhistory.co.uk
a history of the village of Cottingham, Northamptonshire
"Villages like Cottingham clamber up and down a hillside so steep that often your view across the deep ever-changing valley into the blue distance is over someone's chimney pots. These are the windswept villages through which a North-Easter will whistle and boom, led straight in from the Fens by the narrowing funnel of the vale of the Welland.