EATON (CHURCH), a parish in the western
division of the hundred of CUTTLESTONE, county of
STAFFORD, 5 miles (W. N.W.) from Penkridge, containing,
with the townships of Marston, High Own, and
Little Own, and the hamlets of Oslow and Wood-Eaton,
829 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry
of Stafford, and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry,
rated in the king's books at £14. 19. 9., and
in the patronage of Earl Talbot. The church is dedicated
to St. Edith. There is an endowed grammar
school, in which about twenty-five boys, and the same
number of girls, are gratuitously educated.