Cotherstone
The village green
Cotherstone is located in County Durham
Cotherstone
Cotherstone
Location within County Durham
Population594 (2011)[1]
OS grid referenceNZ011197
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townBARNARD CASTLE
Postcode districtDL12
PoliceDurham
FireCounty Durham and Darlington
AmbulanceNorth East
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54°34′21″N 1°59′00″W / 54.57254°N 1.9832°W / 54.57254; -1.9832

Cotherstone is a village and civil parish in the district and county of Durham, England. Its historic county is Yorkshire, being just south of the River Tees. Cotherstone cheese is a celebrated delicacy of the village, famed since at least 1858.[2] It is

Cotherstone railway station; disused and now a private residence

It was formerly governed under the historic county's North Riding and was transferred to County Durham's governance in 1974 as it was near Barnard Castle, the former Teesdale district's administrative centre until 2009. The village is between the Barnard Castle and Middleton, there was a railway station for the village on the now-closed Middleton-in-Teesdale Branch Line which ran between the two towns. The railway line crossed the River Balder at the Balder Viaduct just north of Cotherstone.

Notable people

Hannah Hauxwell, who became famous through a 1970s Yorkshire Television documentary, farmed near Cotherstone and in 1988 moved to the village itself.

In 1973 Maxwell Fry and his wife Jane Drew, both modernist architects, retired to Cotherstone.[3]

The jurist John Cyril Smith was born in the village in 1922.[4]

Miles Stapleton was a notable Lord of Cotherstone (among other places) during the fourteenth century.[5]

John Bowes bred four winners of The Derby at nearby Streatlam Castle (since demolished), including Cotherstone.

Bentley Beetham, the mountaineer, ornithologist and photographer retired here in 1949. He was a member of the 1924 British Mount Everest Expedition.

References

  1. ^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Retrieved 7 July 2015.
  2. ^ "A Month in Yorkshire", by Walter White (1858), page 169
  3. ^ Alan Powers, ‘Fry, (Edwin) Maxwell (1899–1987)’, rev. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 ;online edn, May 2010 accessed 2 May 2011
  4. ^ Andrew Ashworth, ‘Smith, Sir John Cyril (1922–2003)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, January 2007 accessed 2 May 2011
  5. ^ Caroline Shenton, ‘Stapleton, Sir Miles, of Bedale (1320?–1364)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, October 2005 accessed 2 May 2011

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