Eaton has a church, a village hall and a children's park, but the public house called The Castle and its adjacent shop have closed.

In the past large quarries were formed outside the village supplying two local iron works by rail via the Eaton Branch Railway from around 1884 to 1965.

The most famous local legend at Eaton concerns a "phantom cat" that stalks the countryside at night.

There are plenty of hiding places for the cats in large stretches of abandoned railway now covered in trees.

Another local story concerns a 17th-century band of vigilantes in an organisation called Ash Tree Operations, which built a huge underground hideout somewhere in the Eaton countryside.

The band was formed as Eaton had become a popular haunt for criminals from surrounding villages, committing murders and looting houses.

The first ore was carried to a railway wharf to the north of that bridge by a narrow-gauge tramway in horse-drawn wagons.

The quarries later surrounded the village and except as noted below they were connected with the Great Northern branch railway at various points by standard or narrow gauge tramway.

One group of quarries used a tramway that connected to an aerial ropeway which ran to sidings on the railway to the south of the Stathern Road bridge.

A group of quarries to the south and east of the village connected with a narrow-gauge tramway running via Eastwell to the Great Northern and London and North Western Joint Railway near Harby.