LONG EATON, Derbyshire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"LONG EATON, a township and district parish in the parish of Sawley, hundred of Morleston, county Derby, 7½ miles S.W. of Nottingham, and 10 S.E. of Derby, its post town. It is a station on the Midland Counties railway. The village is situated near the Erwash canal. Owing to the greatly increased amount of railway traffic this place has recently much improved, and the village is now lighted with gas.

There is a manufactory for railway carriages, and fancy net-making is carried on. The living is a curacy annexed to the vicarage of Sawley, in the diocese of Lichfield, in the patronage of the bishop. The church is dedicated to St. Lawrence. There are three Dissenting chapels, of which the Wesleyan is the largest. There is a National school for both sexes."

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin HINSON ©2003]