Hunderthwaite is a village and civil parish in

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, in the Pennines of

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. The population of the civil parish taken at the 2011 census was 114. It was

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located in the North Riding of Yorkshire but along with the rest of the former Startforth Rural District it was transferred to County Durham for

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and

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purposes on 1 April 1974, under the provisions of the Local Government Act 1972.

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, the British fashion consultant, author and television presenter of

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heritage is a resident of Hunderthwaite. Etymologically speaking, Hunderthwaite is derived most plausibly from

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''Hunrothr-þveit'', meaning 'Hunrothr's clearing'. The first element in the name could also be

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''hundred'', a type of administrative division.

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Villages in County Durham {{Durham-geo-stub