English Heritage sites near Cotherstone Parish
BOWES CASTLE
3 miles from Cotherstone Parish
The impressive ruins of Henry II's 12th-century keep, on the site of a Roman fort guarding the approach to strategic Stainmore Pass over the Pennines.
BARNARD CASTLE
5 miles from Cotherstone Parish
Set on a high rock, Barnard Castle takes it name from its 12th-century founder, Bernard de Balliol. It was later developed by the Beauchamp family and then passed into the hands of Richard III.
EGGLESTONE ABBEY
6 miles from Cotherstone Parish
The charming ruins of a small monastery of Premonstratensian 'white canons', picturesquely set above a bend in the River Tees near Barnard Castle.
BROUGH CASTLE
12 miles from Cotherstone Parish
Starkly impressive Brough Castle stands on a ridge commanding strategic Stainmore Pass, on the site of a Roman fort.
STANWICK IRON AGE FORTIFICATIONS
13 miles from Cotherstone Parish
An excavated section, part cut into rock, of the ramparts of the huge Iron Age trading and power-centre of the Brigantes, the most important tribe in pre- Roman northern Britain.
PIERCEBRIDGE ROMAN BRIDGE
15 miles from Cotherstone Parish
Stonework foundations, now marooned in a field, of a bridge which once led to Piercebridge Roman Fort.
Churches in Cotherstone Parish
Cotherstone: St Cuthbert
Pubs in Cotherstone Parish
Fox & Hounds
The Green, Cotherstone, DL12 9PF
(01833) 650241
cotherstonefox.co.uk
Red Lion
Main Street, Cotherstone, DL12 9QE
(01833) 650236
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