Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for COTHAM

COTHAM, a hamlet in Keelby parish, Lincoln; 5½ miles WNW of Great Grimsby. A small Cistertian nunnery was founded here, in the time of Stephen, by Allan Munceaux; and given, at the dissolution, to the Skip-withs.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a hamlet"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Keelby AP/CP       Lincolnshire AncC
Place: Cotham

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