Hinton (place name)

Hinton is a place name of Old English origin, and is a common English village name, particularly in Southern England. Village names often include a suffix, for example Hinton on the Green and Hinton-in-the-Hedges.

The place-name is closely related to other place-names that may derive from Old English hēah (or hēa, hēan), meaning "high" or "tall", such as Highham, Heaton, and Hampton.

Etymology The place name Hinton is of Old English origin, and usually derives from either: Old English hiwan (or higna, hina), meaning "members of a family, household or religious house",. "Such a manor was set aside for the support of the domestic servants of a religious or other household" or "farm of the monks or of the nuns". Old English hēah (or hēan), meaning "high, tall" or "exalted, important".

The suffix is from Old English tūn, meaning "an enclosed piece of ground" or "a village or town".

Examples List of examples Sortable list of examples:

Place nameCountyLocationDomesday entryEtymologyNotesHinton on the GreenWorcestershireHinetune.*St. Peter's Abbeyhigna.("monastery")In 981 Elfleda grantedthe manor toSt. Peter's Abbey.Hinton-in-the-HedgesNorthamptonshireHintone.*Geoffrey de MandevilleSee below.There is no knownrecord ofmonastic settlement.Hinton BlewettSomersetHantone.*William of Euhēan.("high")Hinton St MaryDorsetHaintone.*Shaftesbury Abbeyhēan.("high")The village occupiesa hill overlookingthe River Stour.Hinton St GeorgeSomersetHantone.*William of Euhēan.("high")Hinton MartellDorsetHinetone.*Gilbert de Magminothigna.("monastery")Former monastery ofWimbourne Minsterheld land here.

Hinton-in-the-Hedges

The name was previously recorded as Hynton in the edge (1549). The toponym might be: "Village in the hill-side".

The etymology is uncertain. The etymologist Victor Watts proposed that the name derives from Old English hina, which is normally used in the context of a monastery or other community. However, there is no known record of a monastic settlement.

Another possibility is that the name derives from Old English hēah ("high). The name element edge refers to a hill-side or escarpment (also found in nearby Edge Hill and Edgcote) – the village is on the rim of a plateau used by the Hinton-in-the-Hedges Airfield. The Holy Trinity Church is 128m above sea level, while the church at nearby Westbury is only 103m above sea level.

List of place-names in England

Sortable list of Hinton place-names:

Place-namePost townCountyLatitudeN – SPoints of interest Hinton – near Pontesbury Shrewsbury Shropshire 308100 Pontesbury Hill Iron Age hill-fort. Hinton – near Stottesdon Kidderminster Shropshire 282500 Hinton – near Blythburgh Halesworth Suffolk 275350 Blythburgh Priory Cherry Hinton Cambridge Cambridgeshire 256349 Iron Age hill-fort. Hinton Daventry Northamptonshire 252527 Hinton on the Green(See example). Evesham Worcestershire 240250 Hinton – near Peterchurch Hereford Herefordshire 238800 Golden Valley Hinton-in-the-Hedges(See example). Brackley Northamptonshire 237000 Hinton – near Stroud. Berkeley Gloucestershire 203993 River Severn Hinton Waldrist Faringdon Oxfordshire 199106 Hinton Parva (Little Hinton) Swindon Wiltshire 183229 Old Minster, Winchester Hinton – near Bristol. Bristol Gloucestershire 176820 Hinton Hill – Battle of Deorham. Broad Hinton Swindon Wiltshire 176515 Bincknoll Castle Iron Age hill-fort. Great Hinton Trowbridge Wiltshire 159054 Hinton Charterhouse Bath Somerset 158606 Hinton Priory Hinton Blewett(See example). Bristol Somerset 156800 Hinton Ampner Winchester Hampshire 127549 Hinton St Mary(See example). Sturminster Newton Dorset 116212 Shaftesbury Abbey Hinton Daubney Waterlooville Hampshire 114121 Hinton St George(See example). Hinton St George Somerset 112600 Hinton House Tarrant Hinton Blandford Forum Dorset 111101 Shaftesbury Abbey Hinton Martell(See example). Wimborne Minster Dorset 106100 Hinton Parva (Little Hinton) Wimborne Minster Dorset 104448 Hinton Christchurch, Dorset Hampshire 095985 New Forest Hinton Admiral Christchurch, Dorset Hampshire 094877

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