Coddington is a village in Nottinghamshire

Nottinghamshire

Nottinghamshire is a county in the East Midlands of England, bordering South Yorkshire to the north-west, Lincolnshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south, and Derbyshire to the west...

, England

England

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. It is located 3 miles east of Newark on Trent. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 972.

Windmill

Coddington Mill was a four-storey brick tower windmill

Windmill

A windmill is a machine which converts the energy of wind into rotational energy by means of vanes called sails or blades. Originally windmills were developed for milling grain for food production. In the course of history the windmill was adapted to many other industrial uses. An important...

 built in 1859 to replace a post mill

Post mill

The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have...

 on the same site . The tower was originally 3 storeys, raised to 4 when patent sails were fitted. It had 2 single and 2 double patent sails mounted on a cross, rotating anti-clockwise, with an 8 bladed fantail. It ceased working by wind c. 1944, after being damaged by a blast from a landmine, and was derelict from 1947 till conversion to a house some time after 1983. A post mill on a different site was recorded in 1818 as being owned by William Else; it had a 2 storey roundhouse Building. Another mill was advertised in 1818 as a good new erected brick Smock Mill owned by John Else.

Early history

The Domesday book

Domesday Book

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 calls the area now known as Coddington 'Cotta's/Codda's Farm'. Little is known for sure after this until c.1320 when 'Coddington Stone was used to build Newark Castle

Newark Castle

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. A windwill, one of aforementioned's predecessors, was first recorded in 1597. Around this period land records begin to appear in relation to the village, sometimes known as 'Codyngton'.

Nineteenth century

The chapel was built in 1827 and the Church of England

Church of England

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 National School in 1846. The school the gained a local competitor in 1858.

Twentieth century

The new A17 ran through the village (1935). In 1938 the scout group was formed. Between 1956 and 1964 the New school was built, it was formally opened on 28 May 1964. In 1963 the A1 bypass was constructed.

RAF Winthorpe opened in the late 1940s and the 'married couples. quarters was built at Coddington. With RAF Winthorpe's demise the houses were sold to the council in 1976. This area was known as the 'Coddington Camp' and was demolised between 1999-2000. The Hutchinson Road estate was also constructed nearby in 1999.

Twenty-first century

The new school has achieved outstanding in the Ofsted reports and now has 369 children on roll.