Eaton Village Map

 

Extract from The Parliamentary Gazetteer
of
England and Wales (1840 - 1843)

Eaton, a parish in the hund. of Framland, union of Melton-Mowbray, county of Leicester ; 8 miles north-north-east of Melton-Mowbray. Living, a discharged vicarage, formerly in the archd. of Leicester and dio. Of Lincoln, now in the dio. Of Peterborough ; rated at £7 11s. 3d. ; gross income £83. Patron, the Lord-chancellor. The great and small tithes, moduses, &c., the property of the lay impropriators and vicar, were commuted in 1769. Here are a place of worship for Wesleyian Methodists, and 3 daily schools. Charities, in 1836, £32 2s. 8d. per annum. Poor rates, in 1838, £162 6s. Acres 2,470. Houses 65. A. P. £2,351. Pop., in 1801, 247 ; in 1831, 350.

 

 Extract from Whites Leicester and Rutland Directory 1877

EATON a pleasant village and parish, in Framland Hundred, in the vale south of the Wold hills, bounding the Vale of Belvoir, 81/2 miles N.E. by N. of Melton Mowbray, in that Union and County Court District, containing 382 inhabitants in 1871, living in 94 houses, on 2470 acres of land. The parish has a rateable value of £2400 9s. 6d., and the soil is various, being a fertile clay in the vale, and a red loam, with some little sand, on the hills. The Duke of Rutland is lord of the manor and owner of most of the soil, and the rest belongs pricipally to Thomas Sills, Nicholas E. Hirst, and John Rodgers, Esqrs., the two latter of whom, as impropriators, hold the land allotted in lieu of the great tithes, at the enclosure, in 1769. In the reign of Henry III. The church was appropriated to Leicester Abbey; and, until the Dissolution, Croxton Abbey, the Knights Templers, and Laund Priory had lands here. In 1086 Hugh de Grentemaisnell held the manor under the Countess Judith; and here was a wood, 160 perches long and 80 broad. Here is a mill on the main source of the Deven. The residence of George Gillett, Esq., is a splendid mansion, in the Elizabethan style, built in 1875, at a cost of £7000. The Church (St. Denis) consists of a nave, north and south aisles, and chancel, with a tower at the west end, containing four bells, and surmounted by a spire; the pillars and arches dividing the nave from the aisles, and also the tower, are in the Norman style of architecture, and on the north side of the church are some good specimens of Early English work. The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in K.B. at £7 11s. 2d., and now at £130, having 55 acres of glebe, mostly allotted in lieu of tithes at the enclosure, and partly purchased with £200 of Q.A.B., obtained by lot, in 1772. The patronage is in the Lord Chancellor; and the Rev. John H. Williams, M.A., the incumbent, has a good residence, erected in 1854. The WESLEYANS have a chapel here, built in 1823; and the WESLEYAN REFORMERS occupy a wooden building, erected in 1850. A School was built in 1874, at an outlay of about £260, in lieu of the old school-house, which has been converted into a cottage. The Church Close, 14A. 3R. 36P., let for £19, was allotted for the repairs of the church at the enclosure, when four acres were allotted for getting stone and gravel for the reparation of the roads, and for the use of the poor for herbage and fuel. These four acres are in two closes, let for about £5 per annum, exclusive of the gravel-pit, in which many human bones and the handles of coffins have been found. The poor have £5 15s. 3d. a year from the dividends of £200, three and a half per cent. Reduced Annuities, purchased with £200 left by Ann Bates, in 1822. The parish feast is on the Monday before June 17.

Post from Grantham, but Knipton is the nearest Money Order Office. There is a WALL LETTER BOX, cleared at 3.30 p.m.

 

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