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Eaton (also called "Idleton")

"EATON, a parish in East Retford district, Notts; on the river Idle and the Great Northern railway, 2 miles SSE of East Retford. Post town, Retford. Acres, 1, 540. Real property, £1, 833. Pop., 184. Houses, 28. The property is divided among a few. Ten manors were here before the Conquest. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln. Valne, £80. Patron, the Bishop of Manchester. The church is old but good.
[John Marius Wilson's "Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales," 1870-72]

Note: There are at least 4 other places called Eaton. Make sure are researching the correct place.

Census

• The parish was in the East Retford sub-district of the East Retford Registration District.
  
  
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
  
  

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Church History

• The Anglican parish church was dedicated to All Saints.
  
  
• A Norman church stood here, but was pulled down and the stone used to build a new church (date not recorded).
  
  
• The church was thoroghly restored in 1855.
  
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1682.
  
  
• The International Genealogical Index (IGI) includes records from this parish for the period 1757-1843.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Worksop.
  
  

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Civil Registration

• The parish was in the East Retford sub-district of the East Retford Registration District.
  
  
• Civil Registration started in July, 1837.
  
  

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Description and Travel

Eaton is a small village and a parish of about 1,526 acres. It lies 2 miles south of East Retford, 18 miles north of Newark-on-Trent and 140 miles north of London. It stands just east of the River Idle.

If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the arterial road south out of Retford for two miles.
  
  

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Manors

• Eaton Hall was repaired and greatly enlarged in 1831.
  
  
• Eaton Hall was the residense of the BRIDGEMAN-SIMPSON family in recent centuries.
  
  

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Maps

• The national grid reference is SK 7178.
  
  
• You'll want an Ordinance Survey Explorer map, which has 2.5 inches to the mile scale.
  
  
• See our Maps page for additional resources.
  
  

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Politics and Government

• This place was an ancient parish of county Leicester and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
  
  
• The parish was in the South Clay division of the ancient Bassetlaw Wapentake (Hundred) in the northern division of the county.
  
  

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• The Common Land was not enclosed here until 1810.
  
  
• After the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, this parish became a part of the East Retford Poor Law Union.
  
  

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Population

Year	Population
1851	158
1861	184
1871	131
1881	127
1891	138
1901	144
1911	157
1921	161
1931	152

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Schools

• A Parochial School was built here arround 1835.
  
  

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