Cotherstone
From Wikishire
Cotherstone | |
Yorkshire North Riding | |
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The Balder Viaduct by Cotherstone | |
Location | |
Grid reference: | NZ011197 |
Location: | 54°34’21"N, 1°58’60"W |
Data | |
Population: | 594 (2011) |
Post town: | Barnard Castle |
Postcode: | DL12 |
Local Government | |
Council: | Durham |
Parliamentary constituency: |
Bishop Auckland |
Cotherstone is a village on the south side of Teesdale, in the North Riding of Yorkshire. Here the dale nestles within the Pennines.
Cotherstone cheese is a celebrated delicacy, and the village was famous for it by at least 1858.[1]
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.
In the media
Hannah Hauxwell who became famous through a Yorkshire Television documentary, farmed near Cotherstone. The first documentary, Too Long a Winter was filmed in 1973.[2] In 1998 moved to the village itself.
Outside links
("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Cotherstone) |
References
- ↑ "A Month in Yorkshire", by Walter White (1858), page 169
- ↑ 'Hannah Hauxwell at 85 takes a long look back on fame and hardship': The Yorkshire Post, 6 May 2011