Church Eaton, Staffordshire
Historical Description
Church-Eaton, a village and a parish in Staffordshire. The village stands 2¼ miles SSE of Gnosall station on the L. & N.W.R., 5½ NW of Penkridge, and 6½ SW of Stafford. It has a post office under Stafford; money order and telegraph office, Gnosall. The parish includes also the liberties of Marston, Wood-Eaton, Orslow, High Onn, Little Onn, ½Shushions, and the hamlet of Goosemoor. Acreage, 4283; population, 616. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lichfield; net value, £540. Patron, the Earl of Shrewsbury and Talbot. The church is chiefly Norman, and was restored in 1886.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Staffordshire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Church Eaton St. Edith | |
Hundred | Cuttlestone | |
Poor Law union | Penkridge |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
Findmypast, in association with the Staffordshire & Stoke on Trent Archive Service have the Baptisms, Banns, Marriages, and Burials online for Church Eaton
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Church Eaton from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Eaton, Church (St. Edith))
Land and Property
A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Staffordshire is online.
Maps
Online maps of Church Eaton are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Staffordshire newspapers online:
- Staffordshire Advertiser
- Tamworth Herald
- Lichfield Mercury
- Staffordshire Sentinel
- Wolverhampton Chronicle and Staffordshire Advertiser
Villages, Hamlets, &c
Goose MoorMarston (Church Eaton)
Onn, High and Little
Orslow
Wood Eaton