Cotherstone
| Cotherstone | |
|---|---|
 The village green | |
  Cotherstone Location within County Durham | |
| Population | 554 (2021 census) |
| OS grid reference | NZ011197 |
| Unitary authority | |
| Ceremonial county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Barnard Castle |
| Postcode district | DL12 |
| Police | Durham |
| Fire | County Durham and Darlington |
| Ambulance | North East |
| UK Parliament | |
Cotherstone is a village and civil parish in the district and county of Durham, England, historically in Yorkshire. Cotherstone cheese is a celebrated delicacy of the village, famed since at least 1858.[1]
Cotherstone railway station was between Barnard Castle and Middleton on the now-closed Middleton-in-Teesdale Branch Line. The railway line crossed the River Balder at the Balder Viaduct just north of Cotherstone.
Governance
[edit]At the lower level of local government, Cotherstone is a civil parish with a parish council of seven elected members.[2]
At the upper level, it is in the unitary County Durham District. For elections to Durham County Council it is in Upper Teesdale electoral ward.[3]
Being just south of the River Tees, Cotherstone was historically in the North Riding of Yorkshire. It was a township in the parish of Romaldkirk until 1866, when it became a separate parish. From 1894 until 1974 it was part of Startforth Rural District.[4] In the local government reorganisation of 1974, all of Startforth district was transferred to the new Teesdale district in County Durham,[5] as it was near Barnard Castle, the district's administrative centre. In 2009, Teesdale was merged into the unitary County Durham district.[6]
Demographics
[edit]At the 2021 census, Cotherstone civil parish had a population of 554 people in 260 households.
| Census | Population | Female | Male | Households | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 552 | 285 | 267 | 240 | [7] |
| 2011 | 594 | 308 | 286 | 260 | [8] |
| 2021 | 554 | 282 | 272 | 260 | [9] |
Notable people
[edit]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.[10]
The jurist John Cyril Smith was born in the village in 1922.[11]
Miles Stapleton was a notable Lord of Cotherstone (among other places) during the fourteenth century.[12]
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
[edit]- ↑ "A Month in Yorkshire", by Walter White (1858), page 169
- ↑ "Parish Councillors". Cotherstone Parish Council. Retrieved 18 May 2026.
- ↑ "County Durham | LGBCE". www.lgbce.org.uk.
- ↑ "Cotherstone Parish (CP/Tn)". A vision of Britain through time.
- ↑ "The English Non-metropolitan Districts (Definition) Order 1972", legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives, SI 1972/2039 (
View text on Wikisource.) - ↑ "County Durham (Structural Change) Order 2008", legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives, SI 2008/493
- ↑ "Key Statistics". Office for National Statistics. ONSID 20UH010 (Cotherstone parish) in tables KS001 (Usual resident population) and KS016 (Household spaces and accommodation type). Retrieved 23 June 2025.
- ↑ "Key Statistics". Office for National Statistics. E04010613 : Cotherstone in table KS101EW (Usual resident population) and table KS105EW (Household composition). Retrieved 23 June 2025.
- ↑ "Parish Profiles". 2021 United Kingdom census. Office for National Statistics. GSS E04010613 (Cotherstone parish) in tables PP001 (households) and PP002 (sex). Retrieved 5 August 2024.
- ↑ 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, January 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, October 2005 accessed 2 May 2011
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