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Coordinates: 54°34′21″N 1°59′00″W / 54.57254°N 1.9832°W
Cotherstone 
Cotherstone
Cotherstone shown within County DurhamOS grid reference NZ011197 Unitary authority County Durham Ceremonial county County Durham Region North East Country England Sovereign state United Kingdom Post town BARNARD CASTLE Postcode district DL12 Police Durham Fire County Durham and Darlington Ambulance North East EU Parliament North East England List of places: UK • England • County Durham 
The Balder railway viaduct
Cotherstone is a village and civil parish in the Pennine hills, in Teesdale, County Durham, England. Cotherstone lies within the historic county boundaries of the North Riding of Yorkshire, but along with the rest of the former Startforth Rural District it was transferred to County Durham for administrative and ceremonial purposes on 1 April 1974, under the provisions of the Local Government Act 1972.
There was a railway station at Cotherstone on the now-closed Barnard Castle to Middleton-in-Teesdale line. The railway line crossed the River Balder at the Balder Viaduct just north of Cotherstone.
Cotherstone cheese is a celebrated delicacy, and the village was famous for it by at least 1858.[1]
Notable people
Hannah Hauxwell, who became famous through a Yorkshire Television documentary, farmed near Cotherstone and in 1998 moved to the village itself.
In 1973 the modernist architect Maxwell Fry retired to Cotherstone.[2]
The jurist John Cyril Smith was born in the village in 1922.[3]
Miles Stapleton was a notable Lord of Cotherstone (among other places) during the fourteenth century.[4]
References
- ^ "A Month in Yorkshire", by Walter White (1858), page 169
- ^ 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
- ^ Andrew Ashworth, ‘Smith, Sir John Cyril (1922–2003)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Jan 2007 accessed 2 May 2011
- ^ Caroline Shenton, ‘Stapleton, Sir Miles, of Bedale (1320?–1364)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2005 accessed 2 May 2011
External links
Categories:- Villages in County Durham
- County Durham geography stubs
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