Hinton-in-the-Hedges

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Hinton-in-the-Hedges
Northamptonshire

Holy Trinity Church, Hinton in the Hedges
Location
Grid reference: SP559369
Location: 52°1’30"N, 1°11’19"W
Data
Population: 179  (2011)
Post town: Brackley
Postcode: NN13
Dialling code: 01280
Local Government
Council: West Northamptonshire

Hinton-in-the-Hedges is a small village in Northamptonshire, two miles due west of the town of Brackley. It is a little place; the parish population was recorded at the 2011 census as 167.

To the west of the village is Hinton-in-the-Hedges Airfield.

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.[1] There are monuments to Sir William Hinton (d.13th century), Raynold Braye (d.1582) and Salathiell Crewe (d.1686).[2]

The Old Rectory in the village is dated 1678[2] and there are a number of other building which are listed.

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

On the Buckinghamshire railway, 2 miles West by North of Brackley railway station. Post town, Brackley. Acres, 2, 070. 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. Church of England website, accessed 19 January 2010
  2. 2.0 2.1 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.