Eatington, Warwickshire

Description
Eatington or Ettington, a village and a parish in Warwickshire, at the verge of the county, on the river Stour, near the Fosse Way, 5 1/2 miles SE by S of Stratford-on-Avon town, with a station on the East and West Junction railway, and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Stratford-on-Avon. Acreage, 3638; population, 620. Eatington Park is the seat of the Shirley family, in whose hands it has remained for centuries. The mansion is ancient, stands in a beautiful deer park, and contains a series of sculptures by Armstead. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester ; gross value, £120 with residence. The church was erected about 1800. Of the ancient church only the tower and the south transept remain; the latter has been converted into the chapel and burial-place of the Shirley family, and contains some fine monuments to their memory. There are Congregational and Wesleyan chapels, and a meetinghouse for the Society of Friends.