Great Hinton is a small village and
civil parish about south of
Melksham and north-east of
Trowbridge in Wiltshire, England. The parish includes the
hamlets of Bleet and Cold Harbour.
History
The parish was a
tithing of the ancient parish of
Steeple Ashton
Steeple Ashton is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, east of Trowbridge.
In the north of the parish are the hamlets of Ashton Common and Bullenhill.
Name and history
Until the Dissolution of the Monasteries, Steeple Ashton w ...
.
Landholdings amounting to 17
virgates were recorded at Hinton in 1340.
There were ancient settlements in the area as shown by the medieval earthworks to the north of the village, and the ancient "
holloway A hollow way is a sunken lane. Holloway may refer to:
People
*Holloway (surname)
*Holloway Halstead Frost (1889–1935), American World War I Navy officer
Place names
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*Holloway, London, inner-city district in the London Borough of ...
" running south and east of Church Farm.
Great Hinton became a civil parish in the late 19th century.
In 1884, small detached areas of the parish were transferred to Hilperton parish.
There is no church in the parish. Today, Great Hinton is within the area of the benefice of North Bradley, Southwick, Heywood and Steeple Ashton. Both
Primitive Methodists
The Primitive Methodist Church is a Methodist Christian denomination with the holiness movement. It began in England in the early 19th century, with the influence of American evangelist Lorenzo Dow (1777–1834).
In the United States, the Primiti ...
and
Wesleyan Methodists built small chapels in the mid-19th century; neither of them is still in use.
In 2012 the village was judged to be "
best kept small village" in Wiltshire.
Notable buildings
Great Hinton had a
public house, ''The Linnet'' (originally called ''The New Inn''), which closed in 2011. It is a Grade II
listed building that was built in the mid-eighteenth century and has a
brewhouse dated 1816. It is a brick building with asbestos slate roof and brick chimney stacks. The interior of the building has been modernised but the chamfered beams remain.
The Manor House is from the early 19th century and is also a Grade II listed building. It is a detached house constructed of dressed limestone, with a hipped roof of Welsh slate and brick chimney stacks. It is a two-storey building with three windows at the front on the upper floor and two on the ground floor with a central door. Other listed buildings in the village include Church Farmhouse, New Barn Farmhouse and Fore Street Farmhouse, which all date from the seventeenth century, and Old Mill Cottage from much the same date.
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Civil parishes in Wiltshire
Villages in Wiltshire