Evenwood
Evenwood is a village in County Durham, in England. It is situated to the south west of Bishop Auckland. It is in the civil parish of Evenwood and Barony, which has a population of 2,534 falling to 2,455 at the 2011 Census.
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.The name Evenwood is of Old English origin. The first element in the name is efen + wudu ; equivalent to modern English even + wood and meaning "level woods".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.Governance
An electoral ward in the name of Evenwood exists. This ward stretches west to Woodland with a total population of 8,114.