EATINGTON, a parish in Stratford-on-Avon district, Warwick; at the verge of the county, on the river Stour, near the Fosse way, 5½ miles SE by S of Stratford-on-Avon town and r. station. It contains Lower Eatington, Upper Eatington, Fulready, Lambcote, and Thornton; and has a post office under Stratford-on-Avon. Acres, 4, 080. Real property, £5, 057. Pop., 713. Houses, 155. Eatington Park is the seat of E. J. Shirley, Esq. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester. Value, £154.* Patron, E. J. Shirley, Esq. The church is modern; and there are three dissenting-chapels, a free school, and charities £34.

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