Place:Little Hinton, Wiltshire, England

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Little Hinton, also known as Hinton Parva, is a village in the unitary authority of Swindon in Wiltshire, England. Hinton Parva was a separate parish until 1934, and is now in the civil parish of Bishopstone (near Swindon).

Parts of the village were taken over by the War Department during World War II in 1943 to store tanks.

The Norman parish church of St Swithun's is a Grade I listed building.

Little Hinton usually takes the anglicized form because there is another Hinton Parva in Dorset.

A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Little Hinton from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:

"HINTON (LITTLE), or HINTON-PARVA, a parish in Highworth [registration] district, Wilts; near the boundary with Berks and near the Ridgeway, 3 miles S of Shrivenham [railway] station, and 5 E of Swindon. It has a post office under Shrivenham. Acres: 1,815. Real property: £3,604. Population in 1851: 354; in 1861: 298. Houses: 64. The property is divided among a few. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value: £444. Patron: the Bishop of Winchester. The church is partly transition Norman, partly decorated English; and was restored in 1861. Charities £35."

Research Tips

• Victoria County History - Wiltshire - Vol 11, pp159-165 - Parish: Little Hinton. British History Online. University of London.
• From this Ancestry page you can browse the Wiltshire parishes which have parish register transcripts online, quite often from very early dates. However, reading the early ones requires skill and patience. Transcriptions should also be in FamilySearch.
• A further collection of online source references will be found on the county page for Wiltshire.