Chevington Drift
 

The Morpeth Herald used to run a page called "Our Own Column" where towns and villages ran their own items. On 21 January 1905 the following appeared:
"Part of the development movement of Broomhill Collieries Ltd has been to add a new colliery to Northumberland. This new community is considerably removed from Broomhill, and for a time was called Greyton, after the noble lord who owns the land royalties and other sources of wealth in the district, but is now known as Chevington Drift. Situate on a rather barren landscape, the wags have humorously styled it Siberia, but the energy and progress of the inhabitants belie the Muscovite title......"

'The Three Villages', Stewart, mentions this early name and states that Grey himself objected to it saying it was inappropriate, so it was dropped.