Cotherstone
{{Short description|Village in County Durham, England}}
{{about|the village in County Durham|the locality in the Central Highlands Region, Australia|Cotherstone, Queensland|the Thoroughbred racehorse named after the village|Cotherstone (horse)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}}
{{Use British English|date=January 2025}}
{{Infobox UK place
| country = England
| static_image_name = The Village Green at Cotherstone - geograph.org.uk - 1593177.jpg
| static_image_caption = The village green
| coordinates = {{coord|54.57254|-1.9832|display=inline,title}}
| official_name = Cotherstone
| population = 594
| unitary_england = County Durham
| region = North East England
| lieutenancy_england = County Durham
| constituency_westminster = Bishop Auckland
| post_town = BARNARD CASTLE
| postcode_district = DL12
| postcode_area = DL
| dial_code =
| os_grid_reference = NZ011197
}}
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.[https://books.google.com/books?id=Jb0HAAAAQAAJ&q=cotherstone "A Month in Yorkshire", by Walter White (1858), page 169]
File:Cotherstone railway station.JPG
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 {{rws|Cotherstone||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.Alan Powers, ‘Fry, (Edwin) Maxwell (1899–1987)’, rev. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 ;online edn, May 2010 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/39983, accessed 2 May 2011]
The jurist John Cyril Smith was born in the village in 1922.Andrew Ashworth, ‘Smith, Sir John Cyril (1922–2003)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, January 2007 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/89463, accessed 2 May 2011]
Miles Stapleton was a notable Lord of Cotherstone (among other places) during the fourteenth century.Caroline Shenton, ‘Stapleton, Sir Miles, of Bedale (1320?–1364)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, October 2005 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/26302, accessed 2 May 2011]
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.
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{{Civil parishes in County Durham}}
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Category:Villages in County Durham
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