Description
Eaton, Little, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish in Derbyshire, on the Little Eaton Canal, and on the Derby and Ripley railway, 3£ miles NNE of Derby, with a station on the railway, and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Derby. Acreage, 573; population, 983. Little Eaton House is the seat of the Tempests. Little Eaton Canal joins the Derby Canal. There are two paper mills, and stone quarries. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Southwell; net value, £277 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of St Alkmund, Derby. The church is of the llth century, and has been well restored.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
