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CHURCH-EATON, a village and a parish in Penkridge district, Stafford. The village stands near the Birmingham and Liverpool canal, 2¼ miles SSE of Gnosall r. station, and 5½ NW of Penkridge; and has a post office under Stafford. The parish includes also the villages of Marston, Wood-Eaton, Oun, Goosemere, Orslow, and Eaton-Green. Acres, 4, 204. Real property, £6, 226. Pop., 643. Houses, 145. The property is divided among a few. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £976.* Patron, the Earl of Shrewsbury. The church is chiefly Norman. A grammar school has £128 from endowment; and other charities, £74.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village and a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Church Eaton Parish Cannock Poor Law Union/Registration District Staffordshire Ancient County |
| Place: | Church Eaton |
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