Monument record 886/0/0 - Eaton-by-Tarporley

Eaton by Tarporley. Does not appear in Domesday, probably because it was a dependency of nearby Rushton (RN:884/1). Earliest recorded reference to the settlement appears in the Pipe Rolls of 1240. John the Scot, last of the local earls of Chester (1232-7) granted the manor of Rushton & the villages of Great & Little Eaton to one Hugh Fitton, ancestor of the Fittons of Gawsworth & subsequently they descended to the ownership of the Grey Egerton & Arderne families. The present village seems to have grown up around the crossing point of a number of secondary roads. No other focal point (no Medieval church or manor house) (1).

<1> Cheshire County Council Environmental Planning Service, Parish File (Book). SCH2587.

<2> Ormerod, G., 1882, The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester (Book). SCH1389.