Evenwood is a village inCounty Durham, inEngland. It is situated to the south west ofBishop Auckland. It is in thecivil parish ofEvenwood and Barony, which has a population of 2,534[1] falling to 2,455 at the 2011 Census.[2]
A former coal mining village, the major pit, Randolph Colliery with its associated coke ovens, was worked between 1893 and 1962, and at its peak in 1914 employed over 1000 men.[3]
The nameEvenwood is ofOld English origin. The first element in the name isefen ("even, level") +wudu ("a wood"); equivalent to modern Englisheven + wood and meaning "level woods".[4]
Evenwood is the namesake ofEvenwood inWest Virginia - the only settlement so-named in the United States - the parents of that community's founders, lumbermen John and Thomas Raine, having emigrated to the US from the County Durham village in 1849.[5][6]
Anelectoral ward in the name of Evenwood exists. This ward stretches west toWoodland with a total population of 8,114.[7]
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