Feanwâlden (Dutch: Veenwouden[1][2]) is a village in the Dantumadiel municipality of Friesland, the Netherlands.
[3] Together with the village of Feanwâldsterwâl, a former hamlet of Feanwâlden, it has a village interest association group under the name: Vereniging van Dorpsbelangen Veenwouden / Veenwoudsterwal e.o.. Feanwâlden originated from two small villages, Sint-Johanneswâld and Eslawâld.
[2] In 1421 there was also a mention of Lillingwald, possibly also referring to Eslawâld, as in a shortened version of es(se)lingawald[5] but it may have been a third and later disappeared place in the area at the southern edge of a vast peatland.
In 1542 it was mentioned as Feenwalde, in 1573 Veenwolden, in 1664 Veenwolde and 1786 Veenwoude and Feenwoude.
[2] The merger would have come about because Eslawald had to be partly closed due to the flooding caused by the peat extraction.