[1] The station was designed by the Midland Railway company architect John Holloway Sanders.
[2] The Ordnance Survey map published in the year 1900 shows the station serving the point at which a tramway from Knothill Plaster and Cement Works meets the Settle-Carlisle.
[3] The station is named after the nearest village, Cotehill, but this is 1.5 miles (2.4 km) away and extremely small.
It is clear from the map that the sparse local population could not have sustained a railway station.
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