Hinstock
| Hinstock | |
| Shropshire | |
|---|---|
 St Oswald's Church, Hinstock | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SJ694263 |
| Location: | 52°49’59"N, 2°27’11"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 1,200 (2011) |
| Post town: | Market Drayton |
| Postcode: | TF9 |
| Dialling code: | 01952 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Shropshire |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
North Shropshire |
Hinstock is a village in Shropshire.
The manor appears in the Domesday Book of 1086 as "Stoche" (from Old English stoc, "dependent settlement"). The present version of its name was created in the Middle Ages by prefixing Middle English hine ("domestic servants").[1]
Hinstock is approximately halfway between the market towns of Newport and Market Drayton. The A41 road, which until the 1980s ran through its centre, now bypasses the village. Hinstock is at the junction of the A529 road joining to Nantwich to the A41.
Parish church
The Church of England parish church is St Oswald's. The Victorian hymn-writer and hymnologist John Ellerton was parish Rector of Hinstock from 1872 to 1876.[2]
The village also has a Methodist chapel.
Around the village
A Roman road still exists in part as a road and as a footpath through Hinstock.
Other hamlets close by in the parish are:
- High Heath is to the north of the village alongside the A41
- Pixley (52°49’49"N, 2°28’21"W).
Society and sport
Hinstock's facilities include a primary school; a village shop and post office, a pub named the Falcon Inn and a village hall
There are two tennis courts; a football pitch; a five a side court; a cricket pitch; a small snooker hall and a running club.
The village hall was built as a memorial after the Second World War, as was a wheel cross monument which stands at a junction in the village.[3]
Near the village is a very small nature reserve, Quarry Wood, which is managed by the Shropshire Wildlife Trust.
From 1941 to 1947 there was a co-located Royal Air Force and Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm training station called HMS Godwit, which specialised in instrument and blind landing technologies. A Royal Navy officer and seaman from the base are buried in Hinstock Church's burial ground.[4]
Outside links
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References
- ↑ Gelling, M.: 'Place-Names of Shropshire , Part 5' (English Place-Names Society, 2006), page 137
- ↑ {{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=encyclopaedia }}
- ↑ Francis, Peter (2013). Shropshire War Memorials, Sites of Remembrance. YouCaxton Publications. p. 154. ISBN 978-1-909644-11-3.
- ↑ CWGC Cemetery report: details from casualty record.
