Eaton Hastings
Major Settlement in the Parish of Eaton Hastings
Historical Forms
- Etone 1086 DB
- Eton' Willelmi de Hasting' 1220 Fees
- Eton' Hasting' 1294 SR
- Eton Hastinges 1298 Pat
- Water Eton Hastynges 1393 Cl
- Etone Seynt Filberde 1401–2 FA
- Watereton 1412 ib
- Eton Hastings als voc' Water Eton Ed6 LRMB
- Water Eaton alias Eaton Hasting(e)s 1601,1648 Bodl
- Ettona 1130 P
Etymology
'Farm on a river', from the position on the bank of the Thames, v. ēa , tūn and cf. the same name 402. For the Hastings and St . Philibert families, v. VCH iv, 529. The Hastings family, who held the place in the 12th and 13th cents., were probably descendants of the DB holder. The St. Philibert family owned the manor in the l. 13th-m. 14th cents. Water has survived as the distinguishing prefix to the name Eaton in O, St and W.
For an account of the deserted village v. John Brooks, 'Eaton Hastings: a Deserted Medieval Village', in ArchJ 64 (1969).