Cotherstone

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Cotherstone
Yorkshire
North Riding
Balder Viaduct.jpg
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]

Cotherstone railway station; disused

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

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References