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Hinton
__NOTOC__ Hinton may refer to: Places Australia *Hinton, New South Wales Canada *Hinton, Alberta ** Hinton/Entrance Airport ** Hinton/Jasper-Hinton Airport ** Hinton CN railway station England *Hinton, Dorset, a civil parish ** Hinton Martell, Dorset ** Hinton Parva, Dorset *Hinton, South Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire *Hinton, Stroud, Gloucestershire, a village near Berkeley *Hinton, Hampshire * Hinton, Herefordshire *Hinton, Northamptonshire * Hinton, Shropshire * Hinton, Somerset * Hinton, Suffolk *Hinton Admiral, Hampshire **Hinton Admiral railway station *Hinton Ampner, Hampshire *Hinton Blewett, Somerset *Hinton Charterhouse, Somerset *Hinton Daubney, Hampshire *Hinton Parva, Wiltshire, also known as Little Hinton *Hinton St George, Somerset *Hinton St Mary, Dorset *Hinton Waldrist, Oxfordshire *Hinton-in-the-Hedges, Northamptonshire *Hinton on the Green, Worcestershire *Broad Hinton, Wiltshire *Cherry Hinton, Cambridgeshire *Great Hinton, Wiltshire *Tarrant Hinton, Dorset ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hinton Parva, Wiltshire
Hinton Parva, also known as Little Hinton, is a village in the Borough of Swindon in Wiltshire, England. It lies about from the eastern edge of the Swindon built-up area, and is separated from the town by farmland and the village of Wanborough, Wiltshire, Wanborough. The village has a Grade I listed church which has Norman origins. Hinton Parva was a separate civil parish until 1934, and is now in the parish of Bishopstone, Swindon, Bishopstone. Geography The parish is crossed from east to west by the Icknield Way, an ancient trackway; the minor road from Wanborough to Bishopstone follows a similar route. For much of the 20th century the road was designated as part of the B4507, but this section – from the junction with the A419 road, A419 in the west beyond Wanborough, to Ashbury, Oxfordshire, Ashbury in the east – is now unclassified. Hinton village is on the north side of the road, down a gentle slope. About 500m west, on a lane which loops north from the road, are hou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hinton, Alberta
Hinton is a town in the foothills of Alberta, Canada, with a population of 9,817. It is in Yellowhead County, northeast of Jasper and about west of Alberta's capital city, Edmonton, at the intersection of the Yellowhead and Bighorn Highways. Situated on the south bank of the Athabasca River, Hinton is on Treaty 6 territory. The Town of Hinton is named after William P. Hinton, Vice President and General Manager of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway. History Early habitation The area around present day Hinton deglaciated 12,800–11,600 BCE. Archeological sites up the Athabasca River from Hinton show repeated habitation from 8,000 BCE until approximately 1500 AD. Other sites around Hinton demonstrate that the foothills were also an important travel and trade corridor for Indigenous peoples for thousands of years prior to European contact, dating to at least 7,000 BCE. Before Europeans arrived in North America, the upper Athabasca region was relatively sparsely inhabi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hinton, New South Wales
Hinton is a suburb of the Port Stephens Council, Port Stephens Local government in Australia, local government area in the Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia. Primarily rural, the largest population centre is the township of Hinton, which is situated on the Paterson River, near to the confluence of the Hunter River (New South Wales), Hunter and Paterson rivers. In 1835 the post office requested a name for the town and the surveyor general suggested Hinton prior to this it was known as the second arm of the Hunter River (New South Wales), Hunter river. The first European settlers were 12 ex convicts in 1818. Floods Due to the close proximity of the Hunter and Paterson rivers and the low elevation of surrounding ground the town is often isolated for a number of days during periods of exceptionally high rainfall. Most recently this happened in March 2000 and June 2007. Hinton School of Arts Located on 279 Hinton is large sandstone building a brick structure. On 12 Decembe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Hinton
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. 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" 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 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" i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cherry Hinton
Cherry Hinton is a village and electoral ward in Cambridge, England. As of the 2021 UK census, the ward's population was 9,343 people. History The rectangular parish of Cherry Hinton occupies the western corner of Flendish hundred on the south-eastern outskirts of the city of Cambridge. (See Hundreds of Cambridgeshire.) In 1931 the parish had a population of 1254. On 1 April 1934 the parish was abolished and merged with Cambridge. Pictures and a description of St Andrew's parish church appear at the Cambridgeshire Churches website. There is an entry relating to Cherry Hinton in the Domesday Book: ''"Hintone: Count Alan. 4 mills."'' ( Alan Rufus ‘Alan the Red', one of the Counts of Brittany, confiscated Hinton Manor from Edith, the (so-called “common law”) first wife of Harold II of England — Edith Swanneck: 'Eddeva The Fair') The War Ditches are the remains of an Iron Age hill fort (55 metres in diameter), now mostly lost to quarrying. (See Cherry Hinton Pit) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Broad Hinton
Broad Hinton is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, about southwest of Swindon. The parish includes the hamlets of Uffcott and The Weir. History There are several barrows in the parish, notably on Hackpen Hill.Crowley ''et al.'', 1983, pages 105–109 East of The Weir is a Romano-British burial site and possibly the remains of a house of that period. Bincknoll Castle is an earthwork on a promontory on a chalk escarpment in the northernmost part of the parish. It is the remains of a fortified enclosure, possibly Romano-British in origin, that was re-used in the Middle Ages. The Domesday Book of 1086 records that a man called Ranulph held the manor of Broad Hinton. It then passed to the Wase family and became known as Hinton Wase. In 1365 Nicholas Wase sold the manor to William Wroughton (died 1392), whose family then held Broad Hinton until 1628 when Sir Giles Wroughton sold it to Sir John Glanville, MP and later Speaker of the House of Commons. He was a cousi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hinton On The Green
Hinton on the Green is a village and civil parish in the Wychavon district of Worcestershire in England. It is situated at the foot of Bredon Hill, about two miles south of Evesham. Name Name history In 981 Elfleda, the sister of Æthelred the Unready (r. 978 – 1013), granted the manor of HINTON to St. Peter's Abbey – now known as Gloucester Cathedral. The name has been recorded in documentary records as: # ''Hinhaema gemaeru'' (1042). # ''Hinetune'' (1086). * # ''Hinton on the Grene'' (1537). Etymology The name ''Hinhaema'' (1042) derives from Old English ''higna'' ..."Farm of the monks or of the nuns". The suffix ' ''on the green'' ' relates to the use of pasture-land for sheep grazing. Description At a little over three square miles, the land is largely agricultural. Most of the 101 houses and 254 residents (as of 2001) are grouped in a small area between the church and the site of the former railway station. The River Isbourne valley divides Hinton into th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hinton-in-the-Hedges
Hinton-in-the-Hedges is a small village and civil parish in West Northamptonshire, England, due west of the town of Brackley. West of the village is Hinton-in-the-Hedges Airfield. At the time of the 2001 census, the parish's population was 179 people. It had decreased to 167 at the 2011 Census. Name The name was recorded as ''Hintone'' in the Domesday Book of 1086 AD; the owner was Geoffrey de Mandeville. * The name has been recorded in documentary records as: # ''Hintone'' (1086). # ''Hynton in the edge'' (1549). The toponym might be: "Village in the hill-side". History The parish church is dedicated to The Most Holy Trinity. A church has existed here since Saxon times the earliest recorded Rector being Sir Richard de Hynton in 1275. There are monuments to Sir William Hinton (d.13th century), Raynold Braye (d.1582) and Salathiell Crewe (d.1686). The Old Rectory A clergy house is the residence, or former residence, of one or more priests or ministers of a given r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hinton Waldrist
Hinton Waldrist is a village and civil parish in the Vale of White Horse, England. It was part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred it to Oxfordshire. The village is between Oxford and Faringdon, southwest of Oxford. The parish includes the hamlet of Duxford. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 328. Manor In 1086 the Domesday Book recorded the village as ''Hentone'', Old English for "high farmstead". In the 12th century the manor passed to the St. Valery family, from whom the village took the second part of its name. In 1332 the manor was acquired by William de Bohun, 1st Earl of Northampton, whose granddaughter Mary de Bohun became the first wife of Henry IV. The manor was subsequently held by John Ramsay, 1st Earl of Holderness, Sir Henry Marten and the Loder family. The oldest part of Hinton Manor House is a late 16th-century Elizabethan building. About 1700 John Loder had it refronted and a new block added to the rear. Additions to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hinton St Mary
Hinton St Mary is a village and civil parish in Dorset, southern England. It is sited on a low Corallian limestone ridge beside the River Stour, north of the market town Sturminster Newton. In 2001 the parish had 97 households and a population of 221. In 2013 the estimated population of the parish was 260. In 2021 the estimated population of the parish has decreased to 225. The village includes a parish church, a traditional pub, a manor house, a village hall and a water mill. History The church, dedicated to St Peter, has a 15th-century tower.North Dorset District Council, ''Official District Guide'', Home Publishing Co. Ltd., c.1983, p35 The manor house was once owned by the nuns of Shaftesbury Abbey, and its grounds includes a noted avenue of beech trees. The village has a community garden, the Millennium Garden, which was constructed in 1999 as an episode of the BBC series '' Charlies Garden Angels'', with local people and businesses helping to create it. Cutt Mill, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hinton St George
Hinton St George is a village and parish in Somerset, England, situated outside Crewkerne, south west of Yeovil. The village has a population of 442. It has a wide main street lined with hamstone cottages, some thatched. The village has a thriving shop. The village does not lie on a major road, and has a few holiday cottages and second homes. History The parish was part of the hundred of Crewkerne. Much of the development of the village occurred under the lords Poulett extending their large house and estate (Hinton House). By the 1560s the three open arable fields had been enclosed and two large estates of 74 and created, based on the now disappeared hamlet of Craft. The park contained deer and orchards, with cherry trees The village cross is an high cross with a tapering octagonal shaft on stepped octagonal base. It is a scheduled monument and Grade II* listed building. Governance The parish council has responsibility for local issues, including setting an a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hinton Daubney
Hinton Daubney is a small hamlet in Hampshire, England, located between Catherington and Hambledon. It is the site of one of the earliest recorded sightings of ball lightning. Hinton Daubney played a role in the escape of Charles II from England after the battle of Worcester. It is one of the places where he and Lord Wilmot found loyal support in the person of Lawrence Hyde. See _Last Act_, by George Gounter, published by J. R. Smith, 1873, available at archive.org, document ID lastactinmiracul00goun. See also * Hinton (place name) Hinton is a place name of Old English origin, and is a common English village name, particularly in Southern England. Village names often include a suffix, for example Hinton on the Green and Hinton-in-the-Hedges. The place-name is closely relat ... References Hamlets in Hampshire {{Hampshire-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
