Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Eaton iuxta aquam quae dicitur Dee in Cestræ provincia c.1050 KCD 939, Dugd iii 191, Orm2 ii 831

• Eaton 1313 InqAqd 1387 Tab 1551 Pat

• (township of) Eaton-boat 1666 Orm2

• Eaton Green 1671,1771 Sheaf

• Eaton cum Belgrave 1724 NotCestr

• Eaton Park 1837 TA159

• Eaton Hall 1656 Orm2

• Eaton Palace 1882 Orm2

• Etone 1086 DB 1096–1101(1150),1150 Chest

• Etona 1157–94 ib

• Eton 1178–90,1229–33 Whall 1250 P 1549 Sheaf

• Eton Streche 14 Whall

• Eton iuxta Dee 1391 Dugd

• Etun, Etun iuxta Alinton 1208–29 Dieul

• the haule of Eton 1566 Orm2

• Etthona, Etthone 1096–1101 Chest 1280

• Ettona 1180–1216 HarlCh

• Etton 1305 Sheaf

• Ethun 1153–80 Pat 1427 Ch 1154–60 1330

• Ethon c.1170 Dieul 17 1246

• Heton 1188–91 Chest

• Eyton 15,1709 Sheaf

Etymology

'Farm by a river', from ēa and tūn , with hall , grēne 2 , and park .Eaton is beside R. Dee 121, and is separated from Allington in Denbighshire (NCPN 194) by Poulton and Pulford 153, 155infra .The family Streche owned land near Figdale infra , cf. Orm2 II383 n. 1. There was a ferry here, v. Eaton Boat infra . The extensive park of Eaton Hall extended as far as Chester and across the river into Buerton. It obliterated the hamlets of Eaton Green supra , Belgrave, Figdale infra and Buerton 79supra . Mr J. E. B. Gover observes that some street-names in the Westminster estate of the Grosvenors of Eaton are taken from places in the family's Ch estate, e.g. Aldford St., Belgrave Square, Chester Square, Eaton Square and Eccleston Square, cf. Mx 175–178.