The village of East Cottingwith is located within the county of East Riding of Yorkshire.
The Parish Church (a Grade II listed building) is called East Cottingwith: St Mary and serves the parish of Sutton-on-Derwent: St Michael and the benefice of Derwent Ings and belongs to the diocese of York.
East Cottingwith is situated in the Yorkshire and The Humber region of the UK and is governed by East Riding of Yorkshire, council.
The village of East Cottingwith is in the East Riding of Yorkshire region of East Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire within Yorkshire and The Humber.