Church Eaton in 1872

 
CHURCH-EATON, a village and a parish in Penkridge district, Stafford. The village stands near the Birmingham and Liverpool canal, 2 miles SSE of Gnosall railway station, and 5 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. 

An 1872 Gazetteer description of the following places in Church Eaton is to be found on a supplementary page.

• Eaton-Green
• Goose Moor
• Marston
• Orslow
• Oun (Little & Great)
• Wood-Eaton

[Description(s) from The Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72) - Transcribed by Mike Harbach ©2020]