Long Eaton, Derbyshire
Historical Description
Eaton, Long, an extensive village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish in Derbyshire, at the verge of the county, on the Erewash river and canal, and on the M.R., 8 miles SW by W of Nottingham, with a station on the railway, and a post, money order, and telegraph office (R.S.O.) Acreage, 2099; population, 9636. It is governed by a local board formed in 1874; and has a School Board of nine members, and a fine set of elementary schools, which, with the national, provide accommodation for 2500 children. The last group, built on the Sawley road at a cost of £8000, was opened in 1893. There are extensive railway carriage and wheel works; the principal trade is lace manufacturing. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Southwell; net value, £270 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Southwell. The church is old, and there are six dissenting chapels, and a Roman Catholic chapel; also a cemetery, almshouses, and recreation grounds opened in 1885, 12½ acres in extent. There is a weekly market on Saturdays. Trent College, a handsome building in the Tudor style, opened in 1868, has accommodation for 250 boys. Two weekly newspapers are published.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
| Ancient County | Derbyshire | |
| Civil parish | Sawley | |
| Hundred | Morleston and Litchurch | |
| Poor Law union | Shardlow |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
Ancestry.co.uk, in conjunction with the Derbyshire Record Office, have the Church of England Baptisms (1538-1916), Marriages and Banns (1538-1932), and Burials (1538-1991) online.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Long Eaton from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Eaton, Long)
Land and Property
A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Derbyshire is online.
Maps
Online maps of Long 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 Derbyshire papers online: