EATON-HASTINGS, a parish in Faringdon district, Berks; on the river Isis, 3 miles NW of Faringdon r. station, and 6½ NNE of Shrivenham. Post town, Briscot, under Swindon. Acres, 1, 330. Real property, £2, 117. Pop., 185. Houses, 37. The property is divided among a few. About 350 labourers were employed on drainage works in this parish, and adjoining ones, in the winter of 1860. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £378.* Patron, the Rev. R. Rice. The church is old but good.

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