Editing Deurne, Netherlands (section)

== History ==
First recorded as ''Durninum'' (near / by thorns) in a deed of gift from the Frankish Lord [[Herelaef]] to bishop [[Willibrord]] in 721,<ref>{{cite web|title=deurnewiki.nl|url=http://www.deurnewiki.nl/wiki/index.php?title=Schenkingsoorkonde_uit_721|work=Liber Aureus Epternacencis copy of the deed of gift from Herelaef to Willibrord}}</ref> Deurne remained a collection of subsistence farming hamlets west of the [[Peel, Netherlands|Peel]] [[peat]] [[Moorland|moor]] until the 19th century, when a newly built [[railroad]] (Eindhoven - Venlo in 1866) and a [[canal]] ([[Zuid-Willemsvaart canal]] in 1826) enabled the commercial exploitation of the moor.<ref>{{cite web|title=Griendtsveen Peat Moss Litter Company|url=http://www.griendtsveen.nl/lang/en/griendtsveen/historie/|work=history of the company|publisher=the Griendtsveen company|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160323013223/http://griendtsveen.nl/lang/en/griendtsveen/historie/|archive-date=2016-03-23}}</ref> Although the peat industry did not yield much of a [[Profit (economics)|profit]] in the era of [[coal]]-powered industries, the cultivation of the newly cleared land, in the 1930s also by [[Unfree labour|forced labour]], gave a boost to [[agriculture]], [[farming]], and settlement alike.<ref>[[:nl:Peel (Nederland)]]</ref> Today only tiny pieces of this former peat moor remain, some reflooded as mini [[wetland]]s, scattered along the [[fault line]] that once brought about its very existence.

Coincidentally, the very same Anglo Dutch [[Griendtsveen Peat Moss Litter Company Ltd.]] that extracted a significant part of the peat in the [[Peel, Netherlands|Peel]] moved to [[Thorne, South Yorkshire|Thorne]] ([[Moorends]]) [[South Yorkshire]], U.K.,<ref>{{cite web|title=UK national archives|url=http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/s/res?_q=1893%3A+BT+31%2F5595%2F38959|publisher=national archives}}|1893: BT 31/5595/38959</ref> where several of its Dutch employees settled as immigrant workers.