Description
Church-Eaton, a village and a parish in Staffordshire. The village stands 2 1/4 miles SSE of Gnosall station on the L. & N.W.R., 5^ NW of Penkridge, and 6^ 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, ^Shushions, 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.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
