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Cottenham is a village in Cambridgeshire, England. It is close to The Fens. Before the fens were drained in the 19th century Cottenham was on the last contour before the water logged marshes, with Ely being the nearest dry land to the north (some 20 miles (32 km) away).
[edit] History
[edit] Great fire of CottenhamThe village of Cottenham fell victim to a great many fires over the centuries, but none so devastating as that which occurred on 4 April 1850. Starting in the High Street around 8.30 in the evening, the flames spread rapidly and though there was no loss of human life "a vast quantity of poultry and pigeons and a good many pigs were destroyed." Forty to fifty cottages burnt down as well as the Black Horse and White Horse inns and the Wesleyan Chapel which was housed in a barn on what is now Telegraph Street. 
The arsonist was believed to be one William Hayward, who was lodging at the Lamb Inn whilst doing casual labour for Thomas Graves on the boundary of whose property the fire had started. The landlord of the Lamb was quick to report that Hayward had said to him "I have been a match for old Graves ... damn and blast the fire: I wish it would burn half Cottenham down." Suspicions were fuelled the morning after the fire when the landlord woke to discover Hayward had left town. A rather trumped up case was brought against Hayward for referral to the coming assizes but, presumably for want of hard evidence, the bill was ignored by the Grand Jury. [edit] Village amenitiesCottenham has a fairly wide range of amenities in the village, including two GP surgeries, a dental surgery, a library, a Co-operative store and pharmacy, a junior and secondary school and numerous small businesses. [edit] Churches
Cottenham has four different churches in the village, All Saints Anglican Church, Baptist, Methodist and Salvation Army. [edit] Sport and recreationCottenham has a King George's Field in memorial to King George V, home to Cottenham United Football Club, the village cricket club, and a bowls green. The village has a racecourse which is used for several point-to-point horse race meetings each year, usually in the winter months. The village college does provide facilities of a gym, sports hall, outdoor swimming pool, tennis courts and field facilities for the community. Cottenham is also home to the Cottenham Renegades, North Cambridge's only Rugby for pleasure club. [edit] LegendsThe church sits at the end of this long village, and according to local legend and tradition has a strange tale attached to it. The villagers of times gone by wanted to build the church in a more centralised part of the community. The townsmen started the task, but it was said that the stones mysteriously started being transported back to their original site, so afraid, the locals decided to leave the church where originally intended.[citation needed] [edit] Notable residentsThe grandmother of the diarist Samuel Pepys lived in Cottenham; the house in the northern area of the village bears a plaque. Thomas Tenison, Archbishop of Canterbury between 1695 and 1715 was born in Cottenham in 1636. Latest Arsenal million pound signing James Fiddian also resides in the small village where the Norwich City footballer Adam Drury was born. [edit] Cottenham village design statement
Produced by the Cottenham Village Design Group. Adopted 14 November 2007 by South Cambridgeshire District Council. Cottenham was one of the first villages in the United Kingdom to produce a Village design statement. It was one of four pilot projects, the others being Stratford-on-Avon, Cartmel in Cumbria and Down Ampney in Gloucestershire. These were promoted as "exemplars", together with written guidance training and advice for other communities wishing to take up the initiative. The document was updated in 2007. [edit] External links
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