Hinton-in-the-Hedges

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Hinton-in-the-Hedges
Location within Northamptonshire
Population179  [1]
167 (2011 census)
OS grid reference SP5536
•  London 70 mi (110 km)
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Ceremonial county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town Brackley
Postcode district NN13
Dialling code 01280
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52°01′30″N1°11′19″W / 52.0251°N 1.1885°W / 52.0251; -1.1885

Hinton-in-the-Hedges is a small village and civil parish in West Northamptonshire, England, two miles (three kilometres) 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. [1] It had decreased to 167 at the 2011 Census. [2]

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History

The village's name means "community farm/settlement". There is no known record of monastic settlement here. [3]

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. [4] There are monuments to Sir William Hinton (d.13th century), Raynold Braye (d.1582) and Salathiell Crewe (d.1686). [5]

The Old Rectory in the village is dated 1678 [5] and there are a number of other building which are listed. [6]

The Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described the parish in the 1870s as follows:

On the Buckinghamshire railway, 2 miles [3 km] West by North of Brackley railway station. Post town, Brackley. Acres, 2, 070 [838 ha]. Real property, £2, 462. Pop., 178. Houses, 39. The manor belongs to W. Cartwright, Esq. The living is a rectory, united with the rectory of Steane, in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £500. Patron, Earl Spencer. The church is early English; consists of nave, chancel, and North aisle, with low square tower; and contains a remarkable ancient altar tomb, and a very ancient and curiously carved font. There are alms houses with about £38 a year, and a subscription school. Gray, the author of "Memoria Technica", is said to have been a native.

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References

  1. 1 2 "Hinton-in-the-Hedges CP: Parish headcounts". Office for National Statistics. Archived from the original on 29 June 2011. Retrieved 12 November 2009.
  2. ↑ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Archived from the original on 11 October 2016. Retrieved 5 July 2016.
  3. ↑ University of Nottingham - Institute of Name Studies School of English. "Key to English Place-names". Kepn.nottingham.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 1 July 2021. Retrieved 31 December 2021.
  4. ↑ "The Most Holy Trinity, Hinton-in-the-Hedges with Steane". A Church Near You. Archived from the original on 13 January 2011. Retrieved 19 January 2010.
  5. 1 2 Pevsner, Nikolaus; Cherry, Bridget (revision) (1961). The Buildings of England – Northamptonshire. London and New Haven: Yale University Press. pp. 259–260. ISBN   978-0-300-09632-3.
  6. ↑ "Listed Buildings in Hinton-in-the-Hedges, South Northamptonshire, Northamptonshire". British Listed Buildings. Archived from the original on 24 January 2021. Retrieved 31 December 2021.

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