1111Parish Councils in England and Wales have been in existence in some form or another since Saxon\u00a0and Norman times. However, they were only established in their modern form in 1894 when\u00a0Gladstone introduced the Local Government Act.<\/p>\n
Early recorded minutes from Eaton Parish Council date from 1906 when the Chairman at that time\u00a0was a Mr Coutts Antrobus of Eaton Hall, These minutes indicate that meetings of the Parish Council\u00a0had been going on for some years prior to this, but records of those previous meetings unfortunately\u00a0do not appear to exist.<\/p>\n
In the early days of the council items of business included the appointment of \u201coverseers of the\u00a0poor\u201d and early records from around 1906 indicate that these posts were occupied by: William Rosson of Moss Farm and James Sydney Rosson of Eaton Cottage. It is somewhat ironic therefore that both these gentleman were soon to be declared bankrupt and were replaced!<\/p>\n
Other records that exist of Eaton Parish Council can be found in the Parish Councillors’ Declarations\u00a0book, where the earliest records from 1925 indicate that the council was made of the following\u00a0individuals:<\/p>\n
Early meetings of the Parish Council were held within the village Schoolroom until the closure of\u00a0the school in 1967 when the meetings were transferred to the Church Hall.
\nHousing development within the village has always been and remains to this day a subject of great\u00a0concern.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"