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East Cottingwith

East Cottingwith is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Cottingwith, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.

The place

East Cottingwith is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Cottingwith, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It lies on the former Derwent Navigation (canal), and approximately 9 miles (14 km) north-west of the market town of Howden and 7 miles (11 km) south-west of the market town of Pocklington. The village is 1 mile (1.6 km) west of the B1228 road and just east of the River Derwent. In 1931 the civil parish had a population of 185. East Cottingwith was formerly a township and chapelry in the parish of Aughton, from 1866 East Cottingwith was a civil parish in its own right, on 1 April 1935 the civil parish was merged with Storwood to create Cottingwith.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around East Cottingwith

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.

  1. 01
    St Helen's Church, Thorganby

    St Helen's Church is the parish church of Thorganby, a village in the county of North Yorkshire, in England. A church in Thorganby was first recorded in 1228, but by 1312 it was regarded as only a chapel in the parish of Aughton.

    1.6 km · Grade I listed church in Thorganby, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St Helen's Church, Wheldrake

    St Helen's Church is the parish church in Wheldrake, a village in the rural south-eastern part of the City of York, in England. The oldest part of the church is the tower, which dates from the 14th century, but was rebuilt in the 15th century, with larger stones.

    3.4 km · church in Wheldrake, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Thorganby Hall

    Thorganby Hall is a historic building in Thorganby, North Yorkshire, a village in England. The house was first recorded in 1772, but probably had a long history as the manor house, owned by the Annesley family.

    1.6 km · house in Thorganby, Selby, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Church of All Saints

    The Church of All Saints, Aughton, is an Anglican church in the village of Aughton, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The church is noted for its Norman arch which divides the nave from the chancel, and is adorned with beak-heads, which are only present in a small number of churches.

    3.7 km · church in Aughton, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Church of St.Mary

    St Mary's Church is the parish church of East Cottingwith, a village in the East Riding of Yorkshire, in England. The church was probably completed in 1786, replacing an earlier chapel.

    200 m · church building in Cottingwith, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Q26630254

    Ellerton Methodist Chapel is a historic building in Ellerton, East Riding of Yorkshire, a village in England. The chapel was built in 1811, for the Wesleyan Methodist Church.

    2.5 km · chapel in Ellerton, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to East Cottingwith

Airports
Leeds Bradford (LBA), 48 km · Manchester (MAN), 106 km · East Midlands (EMA), 119 km
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → East Cottingwith
    41 km · quickest by road, 1h 25m · £6–8
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → East Cottingwith
    97 km · quickest by road, 2h 31m · £12–15
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → East Cottingwith
    103 km · quickest by road, 2h 28m · £11–15
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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 East Cottingwith. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inApproach from Leeds using the A64, and from Hull (for ferries from Rotterdam) by the A1079.

From Wikivoyage: York, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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    Isle of WightGB

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    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

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  4. 04
    Isle of JuraGB

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  5. 05
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

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Around it

Next door to East Cottingwith

East Cottingwith is 41 km from Leeds, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Wheldrakevillage in North Yorkshire, England, UK3.3 km
  • Thorganbyvillage and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, UK1.4 km
  • Ellertonvillage and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK2.4 km
  • Aughtonvillage in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK3.7 km
  • Storwoodvillage in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom2.1 km