Hints, Staffordshire

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Hints
Location within Staffordshire
Population355 (2011) [1]
OS grid reference SK1503
Civil parish
District
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town TAMWORTH
Postcode district B78
Dialling code 01543/0121
Police Staffordshire
Fire Staffordshire
Ambulance West Midlands
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52°37′24″N1°46′00″W / 52.623333°N 1.766667°W / 52.623333; -1.766667

Hints is a village situated between Lichfield and Tamworth in the Lichfield district of Staffordshire, England. Hints forms part of the wider civil parish of the same name.

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Geography

The village is located along Watling Street, which was formerly the A5, but the A5 now runs in a cutting north of the village. The name of the parish council is Hints with Canwell. [3] The parish church is dedicated to St Bartholomew. [4]

History

The name Hints appears to derive from the Welsh word hynt, meaning 'a road' (referring to Watling Street). This suggests that Welsh speakers occupied the area until at least the late 6th century, when most of the Midlands had been occupied by the English. [5] The centre of Hints is situated 200 metres north of Bourne Brook (aka Black Brook), a western tributary of the River Tame, and nearby villages include Hopwas, Weeford and Drayton Bassett

Twycross Zoo

Nearby Twycross Zoo was founded in 1963 by pet shop owners Molly Badham and Natalie Evans, after the pair's increasing zoological collection outgrew their three-quarter-acre site in Hints, Staffordshire

Notable people

References

  1. ↑ "Civil Parish population 2011" . Retrieved 9 December 2015.
  2. ↑ "United Kingdom Parliament" . Retrieved 18 September 2009.
  3. ↑ "Parish clerk contact details". Lichfield District Council. 2009. Archived from the original on 16 April 2009. Retrieved 16 September 2009.
  4. ↑ "Hints S. Bartholomew". The Church of England. Retrieved 24 September 2009.
  5. ↑ Gelling, M. (1978) Signposts to the Past  ISBN   1-86077-376-1 p.101
  6. ↑ Payne, Joseph Frank. "Floyer, John"  . Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 19. pp. 346–340.
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