Place:


Church Eaton  Staffordshire

 

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Church Eaton like this:

CHURCH-EATON, a village and a parish in Penkridge district, Stafford. The village stands near the Birmingham and Liverpool canal, 2¼ miles SSE of Gnosall r. station, and 5½ NW of Penkridge; and has a post office under Stafford. The parish includes also the villages of Marston, Wood-Eaton, Oun, Goosemere, Orslow, and Eaton-Green. ...


Acres, 4, 204. Real property, £6, 226. Pop., 643. Houses, 145. The property is divided among a few. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £976.* Patron, the Earl of Shrewsbury. The church is chiefly Norman. A grammar school has £128 from endowment; and other charities, £74.

Church Eaton through time

Church Eaton is now part of Stafford district. Click here for graphs and data of how Stafford has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Church Eaton itself, go to Units and Statistics.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Church Eaton, in Stafford and Staffordshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/8001

Date accessed: 28th March 2024


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