Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for EATON

EATON, a parish in Melton-Mowbray district, Leicester; on the river Devon, 7 miles N of Saxby r. station, and 8 NE by N of Melton-Mowbray. Post town, Branstone, under Grantham. Acres, 2, 470. Real property, £2, 771. Pop., 421. Houses, 92. The property is divided among a few. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £83. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is a neat building, with tower and spire. There are a Wesleyan chapel, a national school, and charities £32.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Eaton AP/CP       Melton Mowbray RegD/PLU       Leicestershire AncC
Place: Eaton

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