Broad Hinton, Wiltshire Family History Guide
Broad Hinton is an Ancient Parish in the county of Wiltshire.
Alternative names: Broad Hinton, Broadhinton
Parish church: St. Peter
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1654
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1603
Nonconformists include: Methodist
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Adjacent Parishes
- Preshute
- Lydiard Tregoz
- Ogbourne St Andrew
- Wootton Bassett
- Winterbourne Bassett
- Wroughton
- Broad Town
- Clyffe Pypard
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
BROAD-HINTON, a parish in Marlborough district, Wilts; 4¼ miles SE of Wooton-Basset r. station, and 6 SSW of Swindon. It has a post office under Swindon. Acres, 3,659. Real property, £2,826. Pop., 657. Houses, 141. The property is divided among about sixteen. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £302. Patron, St. Nicholas Hospital, Salisbury. The church is old but good; and has a square embattled tower. The vicarage of Broad Town is a separate benefice. A school has £42 from endowment; and other charities have £32. Sir John Glanville, the eminent lawyer, was a resident.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
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Administration
- County: Wiltshire
- Civil Registration District: Marlborough
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Wiltshire
- Diocese: Salisbury
- Rural Deanery: Avebury
- Poor Law Union: Marlborough
- Hundred: Selkley
- Province: Canterbury