Coton in the Elms is a village and parish in the English county of Derbyshire. At 70 miles from the coast, it is one of the furthest places in the United Kingdom from coastal waters. The population of the civil parish as of the 2011 census was 896. It is located 5 miles southwest of Swadlincote and 6 miles south of Burton upon Trent. Church Flatts Farm, defined by the Ordnance Survey as the furthest point from the sea in Great Britain, is less than a mile southeast of the village.