In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Eaton Hastings like this:
EATON-HASTINGS, a parish in Faringdon district, Berks; on the river Isis, 3 miles NW of Faringdon r. station, and 6½ NNE of Shrivenham. Post town, Briscot, under Swindon. Acres, 1, 330. Real property, £2, 117. Pop., 185. Houses, 37. The property is divided among a few. About 350 labourers were employed on drainage works in this parish, and adjoining ones, in the winter of 1860. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £378.* Patron, the Rev. R. Rice. The church is old but good.
Eaton Hastings through time
Eaton Hastings is now part of Vale of White Horse district. Click here for graphs and data of how Vale of White Horse has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Eaton Hastings itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Eaton Hastings, in Vale of White Horse and Berkshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/1426
Date accessed: 25th April 2024
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