At 70 miles (110 km) from the coast, it is one of the furthest places in the United Kingdom from coastal waters.

Church Flatts Farm, defined by the Ordnance Survey as the furthest point from the sea in Great Britain,[2][3] is less than a mile southeast of the village.

Coton is mentioned over a thousand years ago when land was transferred to Wulfrige the Black in AD 942.

"[n 2]Coton is situated on the Walton Way and is first mentioned in 942 in a charter giving land in the area to Wulfrige the Black.

At the time of Domesday Burton Abbey held land at Coton - however this had been initially seized by King William - no doubt in part due to the rebellion led by Earl Morcar.

Southeast of the village – at grid reference SK253144 – is Church Flatts Farm, which is calculated by the Ordnance Survey to be the farthest point from the sea (at the mean low water line) in Great Britain.

[2] The location is Latitude: 52° 43.6' N Longitude: 1° 37.2' W. This place in Coton was chosen as equidistant from Fosdyke Wash in Lincolnshire; White Sands between Neston in Cheshire and Flint in Flintshire; and Westbury-on-Severn in Gloucestershire – all of which are 113 kilometres (70 mi) away.

[2][3] The nearest high tide point is on the River Trent at Cromwell Lock, north of Newark-on-Trent, in Nottinghamshire, 72 kilometres (45 mi) away.