The earliest account of Evenwood, to date traced was found in the Newcastle Weekly Chronicle dated 14 June 1873. It reported:

“The village is one of those many concentrated assemblages of cottages which always looks interesting and picturesque. There are few straight lines about them. The rows run at all angles and many at no particular angle… This higgledy-piggledy style of village arrangement has undoubted advantages of high value. It gives a great deal of free space and unlimited playground for youngsters.”

The reporter liked the village green, which was described as follows:

“…it has for many generations served as a recreation ground for youth and a lounging place for age. It is decidedly one of the nicest bits of free ground to be seen in any of the Durham villages we have visited. It contributes largely to the health and happiness of the entire community. Let no man, lay brick or paling there upon as long as ages last.”

What we now know as Copeland Row, was then known as Tees Hetton Row and named after the pit which was situated just to the north east, down the hill side:

“The row of houses called Tees Hetton runs in the direction of West Auckland. Its actually built out in the fields and yet there is not an inch of garden and though the front windows look on to a nice grren field, there is no access to the front of the rows…”

About 1990, Copeland Row was afforded an access road and a garden as a goodwill gesture (planning gain) by the British Coal Opencast Executive when it extracted coal from the Thrushwood opencast site which fronted the terrace to the north.