EATINGTON, a parish in two divisions, Lower and Upper, in the Kington division of the hundred of KINGTON, county of WARWICK, containing 641 inhabitants. Lower Eatington is 6 miles (S.W. by W.), and Upper Eatington 5 (W.S.W.), from Kington, The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Worcester, rated in the king's books at £12. 0. 7-, and in the patronage of Evelyn John Shirley, Esq. The church, which is in Lower Eatington, is dedicated to St. Thomas a Becket. A chapel, dedicated to St. Mary, which stood in Upper Eatington, was pulled down about thirty years since, and rebuilt at Lower Eatington, which contains the greater part of the population. There is a place of worship for Baptists. In 1807, Sarah Roberts bequeathed a sum of £200, directing the interest to be applied to the education of poor children; about fifty are instructed. On the south-west, this parish is bounded by the river Stour.