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Cottesmore Cottesmore (locally pronounced Cotts-more, not 'Cot-tes-more') is in the north of Rutland. The name originates as 'Cott's moor'. The prehistory of the village includes Bronze Age burials and Roman and Saxon remains. The 'Cottesmore hoard' of Bronze Age artefacts discovered in 1906 is on display in Rutland Museum, Oakham. Alstoe Mount. On the road to Burley is Alstoe Mount, a Norman motte and the remains of defensive ditches. This site had previously been the meeting place for the 'hundred' or Anglo-Saxon local administration. Alstoe is a contraction of 'Alfnoth's stow'. 'Stow' denotes a meeting place. Nearby are humps and bumps from the now-deserted village of Alsthorpe. Unsurprsingly Cottesmore is in Alstoe Hundred. Two aspects of transport history overlap on the Ashwell side of the village. The remains of the Melton to Oakham canal (which had a very brief working life) run underneath a section of disused railway that is now home to the Rocks by Rail Museum. Betty in 2017. Betty was the locomotive used for the very last trainload of ironstone taken from Denton Park on 14 February 1974. No further iron ore was quarried in Leicestershire or Lincolnshire as the smelters at Scunthorpe were adapted for imported ore. Sir Thomas Royden (an Andrew Barclays 0-4-0 built in 1940) operating a train for visitors in 2017. RAF Cottesmore RAF Cottesmore opened in 1938 and operated until 2012. It was home to both the Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Forces during its lifetime. Cottesmore was the home of the Tri-National Tornado Training Establishment which trained Panavia Tornado crews, and was the last operational home of the British Aerospace Harrier II. It was formally closed on 31 March 2011. In 2012 the army took over the former airfield. Kendrew Barracks was officially opened in October 2012. St Nicholas's Church St Nicholas also has Norman origins, as is revealed by the Romanesque south doorway (now moved) and part of the exterior of the north wall. The tower, spire and chancel are thirteenth century and the rest of the church fourteenth/fifteenth century. The spire has unusually long apertures ('lucarnes'). The rather strange font has a bowl of the fourteenth or fifteenth centuries on a square base of about 1200 The base, unusually for a font, has a depiction of the crucifixion and also an abbot with his crozier. The pulpit is Jacobean. The present appearance of the church derives from a series of repairs and restorations undertaken between 1830 and 1867. Victoria County History page for Cottesmore. Back to top of this page     Back to home page   This website does not gather or store any visitor information. Copyright Bob Trubshaw 2026 No unauthorised copying or reproduction except if all following conditions apply a: Copy is complete (including this copyright statement). b: No changes are made. c: No charge is made. www.hoap.co.uk/rutland

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