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Coundon is an old mining village and former
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in the
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district, in the ceremonial county of
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, England. The
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mentions a mine in Coundon in the twelfth century. In 2001 it had a population of 2611. In 2011 the ward had a population of 7139.


History

The name Coundon comes from its original name, "Cunadun", which either translates in
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"cow's hill", or else derives from the Brittonic toponymic term ''*cönẹ:d '', whose meaning is obscure.


Civil parish

Coundon was formerly a
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and
chapelry A chapelry was a subdivision of an ecclesiastical parish in England and parts of Lowland Scotland up to the mid 19th century. Status A chapelry had a similar status to a Township (England), township, but was so named as it had a chapel of ease ...
in the parish of Auckland-St. Andrew, from 1866 Coundon was a civil parish in its own right, on 1 April 1937 the parish was abolished and merged with Bishop Auckland. In 1931 the parish had a population of 6302.


Sport

Coundon had a football team called Coundon TT which played in the
FA Cup The Football Association Challenge Cup, more commonly known as the FA Cup, is an annual Single-elimination tournament, knockout association football, football competition in domestic Football in England, English football. First played during ...
in 1984. However, the club folded in 1991. Coundon Greyhound Stadium was a
greyhound racing Greyhound racing is an organized, competitive sport in which greyhounds are raced around an oval track. The sport originates from Hare coursing, coursing. Track racing uses an artificial lure (usually a form of windsock) that travels ahead of th ...
stadium situated off the B6287 and was constructed in 1936, on fields to the south side of the Bishop's Park Colliery. It has since been demolished.


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{{authority control Villages in County Durham Former civil parishes in County Durham