Cotherstone is a village and civil parish in the district and county of Durham, England.

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.

[4] Miles Stapleton was a notable Lord of Cotherstone (among other places) during the fourteenth century.

[5] John Bowes bred four winners of The Derby at nearby Streatlam Castle (since demolished), including Cotherstone.