Coundon is an old mining village and former civil parish in the County Durham district, in the ceremonial county of Durham, England.

The Boldon Book mentions a mine in Coundon in the twelfth century.

[2] The name Coundon comes from its original name, "Cunadun", which either translates in Old English "cow's hill",[3] or else derives from the Brittonic toponymic term *cönẹ:d , whose meaning is obscure.

[8] Coundon Greyhound Stadium was a greyhound racing stadium situated off the B6287[9] and was constructed in 1936, on fields to the south side of the Bishop's Park Colliery.

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