Cotness
Cotness is a small hamlet in the civil parish of Laxton, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.

Cotness is a small hamlet in the civil parish of Laxton, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated just to the north of the River Ouse, approximately 3 miles (5 km) south-east of Howden.
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Worth seeing in and around Cotness
6 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Whitgift Lighthouse
Whitgift is a small linear village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Twin Rivers, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England approximately 4 miles east of Goole. It is located alongside the River Ouse and north of the A161 road between Goole and Scunthorpe.
2.5 km · lighthouse in Twin Rivers, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Remains Of Old Church
Old St Peter's Church is a historic building in Laxton, East Riding of Yorkshire, a village in England. A chapel of ease to Howden Minster was built in Laxton around 1330, dedicated to John the Evangelist.
1.4 km · building in Laxton, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03St Peter's Church
St Peter's Church is the parish church of Laxton, East Riding of Yorkshire, a village in England. The church was built between 1875 and 1876, to a Decorated Gothic design by Matthew Ellison Hadfield, at a cost of £3,360.
1.4 km · church in Laxton, East Riding of Yorkshire · Wikipedia - 04Goole railway swing bridge
The Goole railway swing bridge, also known as the Hook bridge or Skelton Viaduct, is a large viaducted hogback plate girder bridge with swing span over the River Ouse, Yorkshire, near Goole, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The bridge was designed by Thomas Elliot Harrison for the Hull and Doncaster Branch of the North Eastern Railway and opened in 1869.
3.4 km · bridge in Goole, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Saltmarshe Hall
Saltmarshe Hall is a grade II* listed 19th-century country house in Saltmarshe, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, on the north bank of the River Ouse across from Goole. It stands in 17 acres of gardens.
1.7 km · 19th-century country house in Saltmarshe, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06Church of Saint Mary Magdalene, Whitgift
The Church of St Mary Magdalene is an Anglican church in the hamlet of Whitgift, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The church is noted for its clock which displays the number 13 in Roman numerals in what should be the 12 o'clock position – the only one in Britain to do so.
1.8 km · church in Whitgift, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Cotness
- Airports
- Leeds Bradford (LBA), 60 km · East Midlands (EMA), 104 km · Manchester (MAN), 106 km
- Stations
- Saltmarshe railway station, 1.9 km
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Cotness51 km · quickest by road, 1h 25m · £6–8
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Cotness87 km · quickest by road, 2h 20m · £11–14
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Cotness99 km · quickest by road, 2h 31m · £11–15
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No local-transport research exists yet for Cotness
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Cotness. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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If you know how people move in Cotness – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Cotness
Cotness is 30 km from Kingston upon Hull, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Swinefleetvillage in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK3.5 km
- Laxtona village located in East Riding of Yorkshire, United Kingdom1.6 km
- Kilpinvillage and civil parish in East Riding of Yorkshire, UK3.8 km
- Hookvillage and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England4 km
- Reednessvillage in East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK1.2 km
- Ousefleetvillage in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK3.1 km