Little Eaton is a village and civil parish in the borough of Erewash, Derbyshire, England. The population as taken at the 2011 Census was 2,430. The name originated from Anglo Saxon times and means the "little town by the water".
It is on the former route of the old A61, just north of the Derby section of the A38. Since 1974 the village has been part of the Borough of Erewash. From Wikipedia
