English: Cotterdale Cotterdale is a very small hamlet, consisting of only 12 cottages. To find this haven of peace and quiet follow the narrow Dale road for a mile and a half as it runs alongside the twisting, bubbling Cotter Beck a fast flowing mountain steam after which the Dale is named. As you drive along this road a true perspective of the picture postcard location of the hamlet is obtained. Cotterdale is nestles under the protection of high fells, parts which are covered with thick pine forest. Surrounding Cotterdale are green meadows and upland pastures divided by a maze of stone walls between which sheep and cattle peacefully graze.

Here you will find the perfect place for a relaxing country holiday, away from shops, telephones or even street lights; here your companions will be red squirrels, sheep, cows, pheasants as well as the ten permanent residents.

Quiet as it is now, it perhaps was not always so, for the dale has had a long and fascinating history stretching back as far as the Iron Age. Indeed, a perfectly preserved sword from those distant times was discovered in Cotterdale and now is displayed in the British Museum.