Crossword-Solution: COTHERSTONE 11 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 16

The wandering monks next turned northwards as far as Witherne, on the Galloway coast, and then returned to England, through Westmoreland and across Stainmoor into Teesdale, staying for a time at a village, which no doubt owes it present name Cotherstone to this circumstance.

WRAYTHWAITE OF WRAYE, 260 XXVIII PAGES FROM THE PAST, 269 XXIX WITHOUT THOUGHT OF CONSEQUENCES, 277 XXX COTHERSTONE, 283 XXXI THE BARRISTER'S FEE, 302 THE BOROUGH TREASURER CHAPTER I BLACKMAIL Half way along the north side of the main street of Highmarket an ancient stone gateway, imposing enough to suggest that it was originally the entrance to some castellated mansion or manor house, gave access to a square yard, flanked about by equally ancient buildings.

Whoever had walked into Mallalieu & Cotherstone's yard one October afternoon a few years ago would have seen Mallalieu and Cotherstone in person.

Mallalieu had designed those carts himself, and he was now pointing out their advantages to Cotherstone, who was more concerned with the book-keeping and letter-writing side of the business than with its actual work.

Mallalieu suggested solidity and almost bovine sleekness; in Cotherstone, activity of speech and gesture was marked well-nigh to an appearance of habitual anxiety.