Evenwood
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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]
Etymology and name
The name Evenwood is of Old English origin. The first element in the name is efen ("even, level") + wudu ("a wood"); equivalent to modern English even + wood and meaning "level woods".[4]
As a namesake
Evenwood is the namesake of Evenwood in West 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]
Governance
An electoral ward in the name of Evenwood exists. This ward stretches west to Woodland with a total population of 8,114.[7]
References
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- ↑ census Office for National Statistics : Census 2001 : Parish Headcounts : Teesdale Retrieved 2009-09-18
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- ↑ Durham Mining Museum : Randolph Colliery Retrieved 2009-09-18
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