Coatham

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For the village near Darlington, see Coatham Mundeville.

Coordinates: 54°37′01″N 1°05′04″W / 54.61686°N 1.08448°W

Coatham
Christ Church, parish church of Coatham and Dormanstown
Coatham Coatham shown within North Yorkshire
OS grid reference	NZ592250
Unitary authority	Redcar and Cleveland
Ceremonial county	North Yorkshire
Region	North East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	REDCAR
Postcode district	TS10
Police	Cleveland
Fire	Cleveland
Ambulance	North East
EU Parliament	North East England
List of places UK England Yorkshire

Coatham is a place in the borough of Redcar and Cleveland and the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England and is now a district of Redcar.

History

Coatham began as a market village in the 14th century to the smaller adjacent fishing port of Redcar but as their populations grew from the 1850s, the dividing space narrowed. Though Coatham is now only a mile-wide district in the town of Redcar, the need for definition was strong enough to warrant the western boundary being marked by a fence which ran the length of West Dyke Road and West Terrace. Coatham comprises the remaining coastal land north of the railway line from West Dyke Road to Warrenby in the west.

Landmarks

The majority of modern Coatham is Victorian housing, most notably at its northern tip by the Coatham Hotel built in 1860. A small boating lake, leisure centre, arcade complex and caravan park now occupies the remainder of Coatham's coast. To the east, the Tees Valley Wildlife Trust's Coatham Marsh Nature Reserve hosts 134 acres (0.54 km²) of ancient Marsh and grassland.

Coatham Hotel
Coatham Marsh

Future development

Since the mid-1990s political debate has been generated amongst Coatham's five thousand residents as to the future of the last undeveloped section of Coatham's coastal land known as Coatham Common/Coatham Enclosure - for the last 25 years used as a golf course and local recreation area. Residents are objecting at losing open space to the council's proposed housing and leisure development planned to revive the tourist industry. The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom announced on 3 March 2010 that Redcar Council must register the land as a Village Green.^[1]

Notable residents

Coatham is the town where Jane Gardam, twice winner of the Whitbread Prize, was brought up and where some of her novels are set.

References

↑ "Press Release" (PDF). The Supreme Court. 2010-03-03. Retrieved 2010-03-04.

External links

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Populated coastal places in North Yorkshire

Anticlockwise
Seaton Carew, County Durham
(See also Warrenby and South Gare)

Coatham

Clockwise
Redcar

v t e Redcar and Cleveland Unitary authority

Towns	Eston Grangetown Guisborough Loftus Redcar Saltburn-by-the-Sea Skelton-in-Cleveland South Bank

Villages	Boosbeck Boulby Brotton Carlin How Charltons Coatham Dormanstown Dunsdale Easington Handale Kilton Kilton Thorpe Kirkleatham Lazenby Lingdale Liverton Margrove Park Marske-by-the-Sea Moorsholm New Marske Newton under Roseberry Normanby North Skelton Ormesby Pinchinthorpe Scaling Skinningrove Stanghow Teesville Upleatham Warrenby Wilton Yearby

Parish & Town Councils	Guisborough Lockwood Loftus Saltburn, Marske and New Marske Skelton and Brotton

See also	Cleveland Greater Eston Langbaurgh (wapentake) Langbaurgh East Eston Nab Schools in Redcar and Cleveland South Gare Teesport Teesside Tees Valley Wilton Castle

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